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一 kanji
one, one radical (no.1)
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 1
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
イチイツ
Kun readings
ひと-ひとつ
Variant forms
弌Words with 一
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —千一夜物語One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
- —痛恨の一撃critical hit; enemy attack dealing heavy damage; devastating blow; crippling strike; crushing damage
- —北辰一刀流Hokushin Ittō-ryū (school of swordsmanship founded by Chiba Shūsaku ca. 1820)
- —押しの一手dogged persistence; determined pursuit; pushing forward
- —捜査第一課First Investigation Division (of the Japanese police); division responsible for investigating homicide, robbery, kidnapping, arson, and sexual assault
- —五一五事件May 15 incident (1932 assassination of Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi by young naval officers, ending party-led government in Japan)
- —一躍時の人overnight sensation; (new) man of the hour
- —一線を画すto draw a line (between); to make a distinction (between); to distinguish (between)
- —ちょっと一杯let's have a quick drink
- —一も二もなくunhesitatingly
- —一挙手一投足one's every action; every single move; slight effort; least trouble; small amount of work
- —一国一党主義one-party system
- —一糸まとわぬstark naked
- —一人前になるto come of age; to become an adult; to become fully qualified; to stand on one's own
- —一二に及ばずright away; without waiting around
- —一風変わったeccentric; queer; unconventional; peculiar; original
- —一卵性双生児identical twins
- —一籌を輸するto be inferior to; to be outdone; to compare unfavourably with
- —首尾一貫したconsistent
- —十一面観世音Ekadasamukha (eleven-faced Avalokitesvara)