Mnemonic comic for

Translation

yi̅ = y + Ø1: one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Mnemonic

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.

一 character breakdown

The character 一 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 一 as component

Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + : ㇆ just looks like a plow.
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠂉 = 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: the character looks like a key.
grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]
surname Nian
year / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + + : Nefertiti (ni) is having lunch (午) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Unfortunately they didn't have any cutlery left so she has to use a dinosaur bone (丨) and a flute (一) instead of fork and knife. It will take her a whole year (年) to finish her lunch this way.
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

= : Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

= + : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) on which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are sitting.

Words with 一

(used after a verb) give it a go / to do (sth for a bit to give it a try) / one time / once / in a while / all of a sudden / all at once
one by one / one after another
in a short while / all at once / all of a sudden
to have achieved nothing / to be a total failure / to get nowhere
thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
to be a little bit careless / to have a moment of inattentiveness
generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)
once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved / death ends all one's troubles
variant of 一併|一并, to lump together / to treat along with all the others
a tiny bit / a wee bit
lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound
jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.
bijective map (i.e. map between sets in math. that is one-to-one and onto) / one-to-one correspondence
one China and one Taiwan (policy)
One-China principle, the official doctrine that Taiwan is a province of China
once is more than enough (idiom)
see 一之為甚|一之为甚[yi1 zhi1 wei2 shen4]
erhua variant of 一下[yi1 xia4]

Sentences with 一

ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
méi mò
yǒu
yi̅
jiàn
chèn che̅ng chèng
shǒu
di̅ dí dì de
bi̅ng
qì
I don't have a single good weapon.