3

This article is about the number; not to be confused with З (ze), Ʒ (ezh), Ȝ (yogh), or ろ (ro). For the years, see 3 BC and 3 AD. For other uses, see 3 (disambiguation), III, and Number Three.

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Cardinal	three
Ordinal	3rd (third)
Numeral system	ternary
Factorization	prime
Prime	2nd
Divisors	1, 3
Greek numeral	Γ´
Roman numeral	III or iii
Latin prefix	tre-/ter-
Binary	112
Ternary	103
Senary	36
Octal	38
Duodecimal	312
Hexadecimal	316
Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, Sindhi, Urdu	٣
Bengali, Assamese	৩
Chinese	三，弎，叄
Devanāgarī	३
Santali	᱓
Ge'ez	፫
Greek	γ (or Γ)
Hebrew	ג
Japanese	三/参
Khmer	៣
Armenian	Գ
Malayalam	൩
Tamil	௩
Telugu	౩
Kannada	೩
Thai	๓
N'Ko	߃
Lao	໓
Georgian	Ⴂ/ⴂ/გ (Gani)
Babylonian numeral	𒐗
Maya numerals	•••
Morse code	... _ _

3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number.

It has religious and cultural significance in many societies.