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

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

not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210°

= + : Shortly after finishing a new installation in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, Ai Weiwei is imprisoned by Willy Walrus, because—out of all places—Ai Weiwei put his new installation right into Willy Walrus's toilet. Ai Weiwei's installation is a Christmas tree with a tiny, slightly tilted flute on top. Ai Weiwei would really, really like to correct the tilted flute, but so far, Willy Walrus has not yet let him out.
to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect)
feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement

= + + : I would say this one looks definitely like a hedgehog, but since there's already a character for hedgehog, let's call this one a sea star.

= + + : Marie Curie found a sea star attached to a big eight ball in the engine's bathroom. As she is a curious and interested scientist, she wants to investigate the sea star, so she pokes it with a flute and tries to tickle it with a daisy.
surname Xing
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)

= + : In front of the space station, Neanderthal Man and a construction worker are busy exchanging a broken capacitor. When Frieda Fox floats by they whistle at her because they think she's hot, but Frieda is just annoyed.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a construction worker
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
tip / end / final stage / latter part / inessential detail / powder / dust / opera role of old man

= + : Mahatma Gandhi set up a giant flute on a Christmas tree, trying to raise awareness for the Roof of the World in the observatory's bathroom. He chose the flute and the tree as symbols for the sky and nature, but as Jehovah’s Witness enters, she thinks it's the sky that has fallen down on our heads, and the end of days is ultimately there.
to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown

= + : In the elevator's bathroom (e4) Marilyn Monroe (mi) was playing the flute (一) so hot that it is on fire (火) now! Luckily there's a fire extinguisher so that she can put it out (灭).
cluster / collection / collection of books / thicket

= + : Kitty Cat (cu) lost her book collection (丛) in the underbrush (丛) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). The underbrush consists of the legs of rubber chicken (从) and Kitty Cat has a hard time searching through the chicken. She is using a flute (一) as a bushwhacker to aid in her search.
book / booklet / classifier for books

= + + : In the bathroom of the elevator (e4) the King of Chu (c) dug up all his photo collections of flutes (一) from all over the world. He is stapling (⺆) together random photos to publish different books (册) about flutes.
third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl

= + + : A bronze medal. Brunhilde and Neanderthal Man took part in a scavenger hunt competition and won the third price. They are still holding the map with which they found a flute inside engine as they receive their reward, a bronze medal.
to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

= + + : Zorro (z) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) exist (在) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). Rosa is in the middle of balancing a flute (一) on her head and on a pile of clay (土). Zorro uses his rapier to inscribe "Z" into the flute, so as to mark that the pronunciation of "在" begins with "z".

Words with 一

variant of 一併|一并, to lump together / to treat along with all the others
a tiny bit / a wee bit
gradually / little by little / in the course of time
erhua variant of 一下[yi1 xia4]
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.
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)
bijective map (i.e. map between sets in math. that is one-to-one and onto) / one-to-one correspondence

Sentences with 一

ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
méi
yǒu
yi̅
jiàn
chèn
shǒu
de
bi̅ng
qì