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3R

3R phrase: a violation of Malaysian law that involves insulting or attacking either one of those three topics. Also the abbreviation of reduce.

Phrase

3R

  1. (Malaysia, broadly) a violation of Malaysian law that involves insulting or attacking either one of those three topics.

Also used as

3R is also the abbreviation of reduce.

3R is also the abbreviation of race.

Origin of 3R

For sense 2, first popularised in 2014 in Malaysian academic journals and political commentaries. Adopted by the Malaysian government in August 2019 to discourage hate speech in light of the general elections on that year, which it began to refer as 3R.

Questions about 3R

What does 3R mean?
3R means a violation of Malaysian law that involves insulting or attacking either one of those three topics.
What part of speech is 3R?
3R is a phrase.

Words near 3R in the dictionary

  1. 3Ps
  2. 3q29 microdeletion syndrome
  3. 3QT
  4. 3quel
  5. 3quels
  6. 3R
  7. 3rd
  8. 3rd grade
  9. 3rd grader
  10. 3rd graders
  11. 3rd grades

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 3R (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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