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. two segments with a single cut (idiom) / fig. to make a clean break (idiom)
generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)
lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
one divides into two / to be two-sided / there are two sides to everything / to see both sb's good points and shortcomings (idiom)
you get what you put in / you reap what you sow