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
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon
old variant of 上[shang4]
hog / swine
豕
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一
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𧰨
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Someone has killed the swine (豕) in the space station's living room (Ø3). While it is floating in the middle of the air Sherlock Holmes (sh) is investigating the crime scene. He doesn't notice the caterpillar (𧰨) suspiciously hiding from his eyes in a huge flute (一) floating at the top of the room.
to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]
Words with 一
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 principle, the official doctrine that Taiwan is a province of China
bijective map (i.e. map between sets in math. that is one-to-one and onto) / one-to-one correspondence