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一

一

一 U+4E00, 一
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E00
← ䷿
[U+4DFF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 丁 →
[U+4E01]
See also: ‐, – [U+2013 EN DASH], - [U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS], − [U+2212 MINUS SIGN], — [U+2014 EM DASH], ー [U+30FC KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK], 丨 [U+4E28 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E28], ㄧ [U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I], and 亠 [U+4EA0 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EA0]

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

Han character

一 (radical 1 一+0, 1 stroke, cangjie input 一 (M), four-corner 10000)

  1. Kangxi radical #1, ⼀ ‎(“one”).
  2. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №1

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 75, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1
  • Dae Jaweon: page 129, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 1, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4E00

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 一
alt. forms 壹 financial
弌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 一
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Oracle bone script

j00001

j00002
Bronze inscriptions

B00001

B00002

B00003

B00004

B00005

B00006

B00007

B00008

B00009

B00010

B00011

B00012

B00013

B00014

B00015
Large seal script

L25931

L25932

L25933

L25934
Small seal script

s00001
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (一) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
一 *qliɡ
弌 *qliɡ

A horizontal stroke, indicating the number one.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔit. Descendants from the *ʔit etymon account for the majority of the dialectal forms for ONE in Chinese (Mandarin, Jin, Gan, Hakka, Hui, Xiang, Yue groups, etc.).

In Min, an additional unrelated form is found and used as the colloquial reading for ONE. Compare:

Fuzhou/Fuding suoʔ8, Fuqing θyo8, Gutian syøʔ8, Ningde søʔ8, Zhouning sɔʔ8, Putian ɬoʔ8, Xiamen/Quanzhou/Yongchun/Zhangzhou tsit̚8, Leizhou/Haikou ziak8, Longyan tse4, Youxiu ɕie7, Jian'ou/Songxi tsi5, Jianyang tsi8, Jian'ou tsi5.

Whether all of the forms above are related and their origins remain unelucidated; they may be derived from 蜀 (cf. 獨 ‎(“single, alone”)), 隻 (< *tjak ~ g-t(j)ik) or 禃.

Some Min Zhong dialects use 個 and 寡 for ONE.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 一
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於悉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔit̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 一
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjit ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔi[t]/
English one

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 一
Reading # 1/1
No. 14833
Phonetic
component		 一
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 一
Old
Chinese		 /*qliɡ/

Definitions

一

  1. one (numeral, adjective and noun)
    • 一長一短 / 一长一短  ―  yī cháng yī duǎn  ―  one short and one long
  2. each
  3. single, alone
    • 獨自一人 / 独自一人  ―  dúzìyīrén  ―  solitary
    • 專一 / 专一  ―  zhuānyī  ―  single-minded, loyal
  4. whole, entire, all, throughout
  5. same, identical
    • 大小不一  ―  dàxiǎo bù yī  ―  having different sizes
  6. (literary) another
    • 蟋蟀，一名促織 / 蟋蟀，一名促织  ―  xīshuài, yī míng cùzhī  ―  Crickets, also called cùzhī [lit. another name [being] cùzhī].
  7. With the verb modified reduplicated, expressing the transience of the verb.
    1. Indicating that the action has occurred only once.
      • 看一看  ―  kàn yī kàn  ―  to have a look
    2. Indicating the intention to try.
      • 算一算  ―  suàn yī suàn  ―  to try to calculate it
  8. once; as soon as; upon
  9. (literary) for the first time, at the beginning
    • 一見如故 / 一见如故  ―  yījiànrúgù  ―  to hit it off
  10. (literary) surprisingly, unexpectedly
    • 一至於此 / 一至于此  ―  yīzhìyúcǐ  ―  How did things ever get so far?

See also

Chinese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 102 103 104 108 1012
Cardinal 〇 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 百 千 萬
万 		億
亿 		兆
Financial 零 壹 貳
贰 		參
叁 		肆 伍 陸
陆 		柒 捌 玖 拾 佰 仟 萬
万 		億
亿 		兆

Compounds

⇒ Appendix:Chinese compounds/一

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (一):

Others:

Japanese

Kanji

一

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. one
  2. "one" radical (いち)

Alternative forms

  • 壱 (financial or formal)

Readings

Compounds

Derived terms

Etymology 1

From Sinitic 一, from Old Chinese *?yit.

Pronunciation

Noun

一 ‎(hiragana いち, romaji ichi)

  1. one, 1
  2. the beginning
  3. unity

Numeral

Japanese cardinal numbers
 <  0 1 2  > 
    Cardinal : 一

一 ‎(hiragana いち, romaji ichi)

  1. (cardinal) one, 1
Idioms
  • 一からやり直す
    いちからやりなおす
    ichi kara yarinaosu
    start over from scratch
  • 一から十まで
    いちからじゅうまで
    ichi kara jū made
    (literally. from one to ten)
    all, without exception; from A to Z
  • 一か八か
    いちかばちか
    ichi ka bachi ka
    it's a gamble; sink or swim
  • 一もにも無く
    いちもにもなく
    ichi mo ni mo naku
    unhesitatingly

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

一 ‎(hiragana いつ, romaji itsu)

  1. one

Etymology 3

From Old Japanese.

/hito2/: [pitə] > [ɸitə] > [ɸito] > [çito]

Pronunciation

Number

一 ‎(hiragana ひと, romaji hito)

  1. (cardinal) one

Etymology 4

From 始め ‎(hajime, “beginning, first”), stem noun form of verb 始める ‎(hajimeru, “to begin something”). The use of the kanji 一 for the reading hajime is an example of 熟字訓 ‎(jukujikun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ha̠d͡ʑime̞]

Proper noun

一 ‎(hiragana はじめ, romaji Hajime)

  1. A male given name

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 3 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

一 • ‎(il)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 일 (revised: il, McCune-Reischauer: il, Yale: il)
  • Name (hangeul): 하나, 한 (revised: hana, han, McCune-Reischauer: hana, han, Yale: hana, han)
  1. one

Numeral

一 • ‎(il) ‎(hangeul 일)

  1. (cardinal) one

Vietnamese

Han character

一 (nhất, nhắt, nhật, nhứt, chí, chiêu, chinh)

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