Kanji1 / 1
一 kanji
one, one radical (no.1)
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 1
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
イチイツ
Kun readings
ひと-ひとつ
Variant forms
弌Words with 一
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —百人一首カルタHyakunin Isshu karuta; poetry cards based on the Hyakunin Isshu
- —一国一城のあるじhead of a household; business owner; proudly independent person; feudal lord; daimyo
- —猫の子一匹居ないcompletely deserted
- —一読の価値が有るto be worth reading
- —クソもミソも一緒not distinguishing between what's good and bad; not knowing chalk from cheese; mixing good and bad together; shit and miso are the same
- —クソも味噌も一緒not distinguishing between what's good and bad; not knowing chalk from cheese; mixing good and bad together; shit and miso are the same
- —アデノシン一燐酸adenosine monophosphate (AMP)
- —千番に一番の兼合something so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success
- —一分のすきもないwithout any weak spot; watertight (e.g. reasoning); impeccable
- —一部のすきもないwithout any weak spot; watertight (e.g. reasoning); impeccable
- —一命をとりとめるto escape death; to be saved from death
- —一命を取りとめるto escape death; to be saved from death
- —一刻の猶予も無いnot a moment to waste; there is no time to lose; cannot wait any longer
- —第一ヴァイオリンfirst violin; first violinist
- —衆目の一致する所something that is widely agreed; something that is universally acknowledged; something for which there is a broad consensus
- —一目も二目もおくto take off one's hat to a person; to acknowledge another's superiority
- —二十一カ条の要求Twenty-One Demands (made by Japan on China in 1915)
- —泰山鳴動して鼠一匹much ado about nothing; great cry and little wool; the mountain laboured and brought forth a mouse
- —百害あって一利無しall pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; a hundred harms and not a single gain
- —一騎当千のつわものgreat warrior