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.
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一 character breakdown

The character 一 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 一 as component

10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster / ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)

= + : The rooster and Maud Younger are taking part in a re-enactment in the outhouse. They re-enact former times by getting up with sunrise; the rooster stands on top of the sun and crows so that everybody gets up, and Maud Younger plays a traditional sihu fiddle.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a double axe. Here's why: 20 -> XX -> "double-x" -> "double axe". Nefertiti (ni) is rebuilding her kingdom in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She's shaping twenty (卄) dinosaur bones (丨) with a double axe (卄) and stacking them on top of one (一) flute (一).
class or grade / generation / plaintiff and defendant (old) / government department (old)

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a Chinese / white herring.

The King of Chu (c) called Cao Cao too often (曹) and now he's about to enter the aorta (ao2). To pay him respect the King of Chu plays a flute (一) and the Chinese / white herring (曹) plays a harp (曲). They also record their performance with a microphone (曰).
surname Cao / Zhou Dynasty vassal state

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a Chinese / white herring.

The King of Chu (c) called Cao Cao too often (曹) and now he's about to enter the aorta (ao2). To pay him respect the King of Chu plays a flute (一) and the Chinese / white herring (曹) plays a harp (曲). They also record their performance with a microphone (曰).
twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions / also written using banker's character 念

廿 = + : Nefertiti needs to vent off steam. In anthill's bathroom she finds a flower pot with twenty flutes inside. With a single swing with her double axe, she splits all twenty flutes. Afterwards, she feels much better.

廿 = + : This character looks like a flower pot.
animal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office)

= 廿 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a cow's hide.

Guy Fawkes (g) arrived at the entrance to the elevator (e2) to visit this year's darts grand finale. He is standing right next to the dart board (中) and cheers for his favourite player using a self-made drum. The drum consists of a flower pot (廿) over which Guy stretched a cow's hide (革). He is beating his drum using a flute (一).
Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3]

= + : What is Asia famous for? Many people will say for its food. Let's say that 亚 is for 麻婆豆腐. Maud Younger is eating a plate of Mapo Doufu in the ashram's bathroom, when a bullfrog steals the plate by snatching it away with his tongue. His punishment follows at once by Maud Younger beating him over the head with a flute.
second / next to / inferior / sub- / Taiwan pr. [ya3]

= + : What is Asia famous for? Many people will say for its food. Let's say that 亚 is for 麻婆豆腐. Maud Younger is eating a plate of Mapo Doufu in the ashram's bathroom, when a bullfrog steals the plate by snatching it away with his tongue. His punishment follows at once by Maud Younger beating him over the head with a flute.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a Sherpa, 夏尔巴人. Marie Curie (xi) gives a Sherpa (夏) 100 bucks (𦣻) to play a summer song on his flute (𦣻) and dance on high heels (夂) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
to print / to mark / to engrave / a seal / a print / a stamp / a mark / a trace / image

= + : Maud Younger (y) and the baby seal (卩) are working on a campaign in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). They heard that on banana farms, banana trees (⺁) are tortured with electric shocks from capacitors (二) to stimulate them to grow bananas faster. They want to protest against this practice and created a blow up banana tree with a fake capacitor attached. In the encampment's bathroom they use a photocopier to print (印) lots of flyers with this motive and a text to motivate the people to rise up.

= + : Maud Younger (y) and the baby seal (卩) are working on a campaign in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). They heard that on banana farms, banana trees (⺁) are tortured with electric shocks from capacitors (二) to stimulate them to grow bananas faster. They want to protest against this practice and created a blow up banana tree with a fake capacitor attached. In the encampment's bathroom they use a photocopier to print (印) lots of flyers with this motive and a text to motivate the people to rise up.
11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the Dog / ancient Chinese compass point: 300°

= + : Mnemonic symbol: another dog, this time a cute little poodle.

Xu Xian is on vacation in outer space. He parked his recreational vehicle, his fifth wheel, in front of the space station and enjoys throwing flutes for his cute poodle to fetch.

Words with 一

only / sole
single / only / sole
to come to the end of a phase (idiom)
to achieve fame among one's contemporaries (idiom); temporary or local celebrity
12th April / refers to Chiang Kai-shek's coup of 12th April 1927 against the communists in Shanghai
Unicode / also written 統一碼|统一码
with a crash / with a thunderous noise
startled / to frighten / scared out of one's skin
the coup of 12th Mar 1927, an attempt by Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the communists / called 反革命政變|反革命政变 or 慘案|惨案 in PRC literature
York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004
circumference of a circle is proverbially three times its radius
variant of 轟動一時|轰动一时[hong1 dong4 yi1 shi2]

Sentences with 一

tè
dì
lái
cǐ
xiàng
nín
jiè
yi̅
jiè
使
shǐ
yòng