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
expensive / noble / precious / (honorific) your
贵
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中
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一
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贝
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Mnemonic symbol: a treasure chest. Gitta Giraffe (gu) and the crab (贝) found a treasure chest (贵) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). Inside of the chest they found a very precious dart board (中) and flutes (一) made out of gold; they mistake the flutes for darts and play a game of darts throwing the flutes at the very expensive (贵) dart board.
lung / CL:個|个[ge4]
fish / CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]
鱼
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⺈
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田
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一
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Yu the Great set up a small rice field just inside the entrance of the space station, and there are some fish swimming in the rice field. The space station's crane spotted them and wants to snap one out of the rice field, but just as he was about to snatch one of them, Yu the Great hit him with a flute.
surname Long / short for 吉隆坡[Ji2 long2 po1], Kuala Lumpur
"breath" or "sigh" component in Chinese characters
Mnemonic symbol: a breathing mask.
The air inside of the aorta is so bad that Karl Marx needs a breathing mask to breathe freely.
deficiency / deficit / luckily / it's lucky that... / (often ironically) fancy that...
亏
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二
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㇉
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Mnemonic symbol: a lucky leprechaun. The leprechaun (亏) wants to propose to Karl Koala (ku) and uses the romantic moment in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1). Unfortunately he has no ring, so he uses a capacitor (二) of which he bent the legs to build a ring. He's quite lucky (亏), because right after he gives the ring to Karl, a lightning bolt (㇉) strikes and hits poor Karl Koala. Had the leprechaun kept the ring, the lightning bolt would have hit him instead.
tiny / miniature / slightly / profound / abtruse / to decline / one millionth part of / micro- / Taiwan pr. [wei2]
微
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彳
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山
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一
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几
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攵
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Mnemonic symbol: a microscope.
Willy Walrus set up his microscope on a small table in front of the Eiffel Tower. He is investigating a very interesting crystal: the crystal looks like a big flute, and when he chips off pieces with a sledgehammer they also look like little flutes. He stores the chips in a black sneaker and to put them under the microscope he uses a fork.
Willy Walrus set up his microscope on a small table in front of the Eiffel Tower. He is investigating a very interesting crystal: the crystal looks like a big flute, and when he chips off pieces with a sledgehammer they also look like little flutes. He stores the chips in a black sneaker and to put them under the microscope he uses a fork.
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