3

Not to be confused with the reversed epsilon ɜ used to represent the open-mid central unrounded vowel, the extended Latin letters Ȝ or Ʒ, the Cyrillic З, the Georgian პ, or the Armenian Յ.

For technical reasons, "<3" redirects here. For typographical portrayals of hearts, see Heart (symbol).

For technical reasons, ":3" redirects here. For the emoticon, see List of emoticons.

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3, three, or III may refer to:

3 (number), a number, numeral, and glyph
AD 3, the third year of the AD era
3 BC, the third year before the AD era

Books

Three of Them (Russian: Трое, literally, "three"), 1901 novel by Maksim Gorky
Three, 1946 novel by William Sansom
Three, 1970 novel by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Three (novel), 2003 suspense novel by Ted Dekker
3, 2004 novel by Julie Hilden
Three, a collection of three plays by Lillian Hellman
Three By Flannery O'Connor, collection Flannery O'Connor bibliography

Companies

Hutchison 3G, Three, or 3, mobile phone networks in Europe, Australia, and Asia

Film

Three (1965 film), a Yugoslavian film by Aleksandar Petrović
Three (1969 film), starring Charlotte Rampling and Sam Waterston
3 (1971 film), a Norwegian film by Nicole Macé
Three (2002 film), an Asian horror movie collaboration
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, a 2004 television movie
Survival Island or Three, a 2006 film starring Billy Zane and Kelly Brook
Three (2006 film), based on the novel with the same name
Three (2008 film), a Telugu film
Three – Love, Lies and Betrayal, a 2009 film starring Aashish Chaudhary, Nausheen Ali Sardar & Akshay Kapoor
Three (2010 film), a German film (also known as 3)
3 (2012 Tamil film), a Tamil film starring Dhanush and Shruti Haasan
3 (2012 Uruguayan film), a Uruguayan drama film directed by Pablo Stoll
Three (2016 film), a Hong Kong-Chinese film by Johnnie To

Television

Three (TV series), a 1998 American series
3 (TV series), a 2012 CBS reality television series
"3" (The X-Files), a 1994 episode
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, a 2004 television movie
Three's Company, 1970's TV series
BBC Three, a British television channel
Channel 3, television channel traditionally associated with ITV (TV network) in the UK

Music

Music theory and notation

The mediant, the third note in a major or minor scale, often called a third and notated III or iii
A Triad (music), a chord with three notes, usually spaced in thirds
The Tritone, an interval that splits the octave into three equal spaces
A triplet, a type of tuplet, where a beat is split into three spaces

Artists

3 (1980s band), rock band of Keith Emerson, Robert Berry and Carl Palmer
3 (American band), experimental progressive band based in Woodstock, New York
Three (band), post hardcore band signed to Dischord Records
BK3, Three or 3, band with Bill Kreutzmann. Scott Murawski and Oteil Burbridge
#3, pseudonym of American musician Chris Fehn when performing with Slipknot

Albums

Acid King III
AB III, by Alter Bridge
III (The Atomic Bitchwax album)
III, an album by Dany Bédar
Three (The Black Heart Procession album), 2000
III, an album by Black Widow (band)
Three (Bob James album), 1976
Three (Charlotte Church EP)
III (Chad Brock album), 2001
3 (The Butchies album), 2001
3 (Calogero album), 2004
Chicago III, 1971
Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, 1992
III (Download album), 1997
Three (End of Everything album), 2006
III (Espers album)
III (Family Force 5 album)
3 (FireHouse album), 1995
Focus III
Three (Gloriana album), 2015
III (Gui Boratto album)
III (Haloo Helsinki! album), 2011
Three, a 2001 album by Honey
3 (Ich Troje album), 1999
3 (Indochine album), 1985
Three (The John Butler Trio album), 2001
Led Zeppelin III
III (Maylene & The Sons of Disaster album)
III (Moistboyz album), 2002
III (Stanton Moore album), 2006
III (Mt. Egypt album)
III (Joe Nichols album)
3 (Netsky album), 2009 (also stylised III)
Three (Nine Days album), 1998
3 (Nouvelle Vague album), 2009
3, 1997 album by Peace Love & Pitbulls
Three (Ph.D. album), 2009
Three (Joel Plaskett album), 2009
3 (Pole album), 2000
3 (Santana album)
Sebadoh III, 1991
3 (Shakespears Sister album)
III (Shiny Toy Guns album)
3 (Soulfly album), 2002
III (S.O.S. Band album)
3 (Suburban Kids with Biblical Names album), 2005
Three (Sugababes album), 2003
Billy Talent III
Three (Tubeless Hearts album), 1994
Three (U2 EP), 1979
Van Halen III
3 (Violent Femmes album), 1989
3 (Final album)
Three, 2002 album by Armageddon (Swedish band)
Three, an album by APB (band)
3 (Bo Bice album), 2010
3 (Alejandro Sanz album)
3 (Buffalo Killers album), 2011
3 (Mastedon album), 2009
3 (The Atomic Bitchwax album), 2005
3rd (The Rasmus EP), 1996
III (Bob Sinclar album), 2003
III (Orbital EP), 1991
#3 (The Script album)
3 (Typical Cats album)
BK3 (album) by Bruce Kulick, 2010
III (Eths album), 2012
III (BadBadNotGood album), 2014
(III), by Crystal Castles
Phase Three, by Riverdales
Threes (album), by Sparta
3's, by Smile Empty Soul
III (Take That album)
3 (Prong EP)
3 (Smack EP)

Songs

"3" (Britney Spears song), 2009
"3", a song by Disturbed from their 2011 album The Lost Children
"3", a 1986 song by Ultravox used as B-side of "Same Old Story", and re-released on U-Vox
Song Three, a song from the Mahagonny-Songspiel
Song 3, a song from the 2002 Robbie Williams album Escapology (album)
"Three", a song by Strawberry Alarm Clock
"Three", a song by Jimmy Newman
"Three", a song by Massive Attack from the 1994 album Protection
"Track Three", 1984 Scott Walker song
"Tres" (song), aka "3", 2008 song by Juanes
"The Magic Number", a song by De La Soul, sometimes erroneously called "The Three Song", from their album 3 Feet High and Rising
"3", a song by Flume from the album, Skin

Other

3 Songs (disambiguation)
3 EPs, 1994 Tall Dwarfs EP
The Three E.P.'s, 1998 The Beta Band album

Technology

3, polyvinyl chloride's resin identification code used in recycling
DVD region code 3, used for many East Asian countries (except for Japan (Region 2) and China (Region 6))

Similar glyphs

Open-mid central unrounded vowel, ɜ, of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), used in Cherokee and some English pronunciation
Ezh (letter), Ʒ, a symbol for dram
- Lowercase ezh, ʒ, representing the Voiced palato-alveolar sibilant of the IPA, used in several African languages
ℨ, a symbol for dram (unit) and Gothic font letter Z
Yogh or Ȝ, letter used in Middle English and Middle Scots
Gyfu or Gar (rune) Anglo Saxon runes transliterated as ȝ
Ze (Cyrillic) or З, eleventh letter of Kazakh, tenth letter of Ukrainian, Dungan, ninth letter of Russian, Belarusian, Uzbek, Serbo-Croatian, Mongolian, eighth letter of Bulgarian and Kyrgyz alphabets; and Cyrillic numeral 7
E (Cyrillic) or Э, fortieth letter of Kazakh, thirty-fifth letter of Dungan, thirty-third letter of Mongolian, thirty-first letter of Russian, thirtieth letter of Belarusian, twenty-eighth letter of Kyrgyz, and twenty-seventh letter of Uzbek alphabets
Abkhazian Dze or Ӡ, nineteenth letter of Abkhazian Cyrillic script alphabet
Ro (kana) or ろ, in hiragana Japanese script
Da̰ dwé or ဒ, nineteenth letter of Burmese alphabet
Vin or ვ, sixth letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 6
Kan or კ, eleventh letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 20
Par or პ, seventeenth letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 80
Vie or ჳ, obsolete twenty-second letter of Georgian alphabet
Hi or Յ, twenty-first letter of Armenian alphabet and Armenian numeral 300
౩, Telugu alphabet numeral 3
૩, Gujarati alphabet numeral 3
३, Devanagari numeral 3
੩, Gurmukhī alphabet numeral 3
༣, Tibetan alphabet numeral 3

Other uses

3 (New York City Subway service), a service of the New York City Subway
Three, a personality type of the Enneagram of Personality typology
Three-point field goal, a long shot in basketball
Mazda3, a compact car
BMW 3 Series
MG 3
Qoros 3
Group 3 element, often written as III
③, see enclosed alphanumerics
Threes (game), a game on the iPhone
Threes, original title of the musical Company
Samsung Galaxy 3, or i5800, an Android-powered smartphone by Samsung Electronics, released in 2010
Model 3 (disambiguation)
Type 3 (disambiguation)
Class 3 (disambiguation)

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