Yakuza vs. Triad

Yakuzanoun

A Japanese organized crime gang.

Yakuzanoun

A member of a Japanese organized crime gang.

Yakuzanoun

a Japanese gangster

Yakuzanoun

organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises

Yakuza

Yakuza (Japanese: ヤクザ, IPA: [jaꜜkɯza]), also known as gokudō (極道, , IPA: [gokɯꜜdoː]), are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media by request of the police, calls them bōryokudan (暴力団, , IPA: [boːɾʲokɯꜜdaɴ]), while the yakuza call themselves ninkyō dantai (任侠団体/仁侠団体, , IPA: [ɲiŋkʲoː dantai]).

Triadnoun

A grouping of three.

Triadnoun

(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.

Triadnoun

(electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.

Triadnoun

A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

Triadnoun

A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.

Triadnoun

A chord of three notes.

Triadnoun

An element or radical whose valence is three.

Triadnoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

Triadnoun

a set of three similar things considered as a unit

Triadnoun

three people considered as a unit

Triadnoun

a 3-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones