一
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
to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
Character component without intrinsic meaning
⺊
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丨
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一
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Mnemonic symbol: ⺊ looks a bit like a pennant.
Someone stuck a flute into the middle of a hollow dinosaur bone to conduct studies on the speed of sound. At the one end of the hollow dinosaur bone is an answering pennant, used in the International Signal Code primarily for the reply "signal is received and understood", which should be raised as soon as the person is hearing the sound made by the flute.
Someone stuck a flute into the middle of a hollow dinosaur bone to conduct studies on the speed of sound. At the one end of the hollow dinosaur bone is an answering pennant, used in the International Signal Code primarily for the reply "signal is received and understood", which should be raised as soon as the person is hearing the sound made by the flute.
step with the right foot / see 彳亍[chi4 chu4]
亍
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一
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丁
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Mnemonic symbol: a step with the right foot is a kick of a righteous knight, who wears a full armor boot on his right foot.
Someone is playing music on a flute (一) for Chantal Chicken (chu) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) so that she can practice pole dancing on a huge nail (丁). She's working on her step with the right foot (亍) while wearing a full armor boot (mnemonic symbol for 亍).
Someone is playing music on a flute (一) for Chantal Chicken (chu) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) so that she can practice pole dancing on a huge nail (丁). She's working on her step with the right foot (亍) while wearing a full armor boot (mnemonic symbol for 亍).
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
丈
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乂
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Mnemonic symbol: ten feet are about 3 meters, so let's say Bigfoot. Nice side effect: that way it's easier to remember 丈夫 = husband (if your husband looks like Bigfoot). The ten feet tall Bigfoot (丈) just left the anglepod's bathroom (ang4), and he left something that looks like a big flute (一). James II of England (zh) needs to move it out of the way, but he'll touch it only with pliers (丈).
not to have / no / none / not / to lack / un- / -less
无
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𠂇
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乚
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Just inside the space station's entrance, Diogenes is annoyed by Willy Walrus, who's playing his flute. Diogenes just wants a peaceful time without being disturbed, so he cuts the flute into pieces with a pair of scissors, and threatens to beat Willy Walrus with a shovel should he annoy Diogenes again.
Mnemonic symbol: 無爲, wu2 wei2, the state of non-doing after having attained complete harmony with the Tao.
Willy Walrus (w) has attained Wu Wei (無) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), while from the outside it may seem like he is napping.
Willy Walrus (w) has attained Wu Wei (無) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), while from the outside it may seem like he is napping.
Words with 一
to get there in one step (idiom); easily done / success at a stroke / to get results overnight
lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity / one solution fits a diversity of problems / one size fits all