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A way to remember it
Three lines for three. This is where the counting-by-strokes system stops: four would have been unreadable, so 四 went a different way entirely.
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sān — three
Radical 一 · 3 strokes · HSK 1
A way to remember itThree lines for three. This is where the counting-by-strokes system stops: four would have been unreadable, so 四 went a different way entirely.