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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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イチイツ
Kun readings
ひと-ひとつ
Variant forms
弌Words with 一
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —夜明け前が一番暗いit's always darkest before the dawn; the darkest hour is just before the dawn
- —一を聞いて十を知るto understand everything from only one part; to be perceptive; to be quick to understand; to be quick on the uptake
- —格納メッセージ一覧stored message listing; MS
- —第一レベルドメインtop-level domain
- —一難去ってまた一難one thing after another; out of the frying pan and into the fire
- —女の一念岩をも通すwomen will have their wills
- —アデノシン一リン酸adenosine monophosphate (AMP)
- —千里の道も一歩からa journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- —起きて半畳寝て一畳one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat
- —一般データ保護規則General Data Protection Regulation (EU, 2018); GDPR
- —一攫千金を夢見る男Soldier of Fortune (1955 movie)
- —九仞の功を一簣に虧くto fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle
- —一年の計は元旦にありthe whole year's plans should be made on New Year's Day
- —一寸の虫にも五分の魂tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them
- —千番に一番の兼ね合いsomething so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success
- —一盗二婢三妾四妓五妻(the most thrilling relationships for a man are) another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife
- —あの世千日この世一日a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next
- —第一リン酸カルシウムmonocalcium phosphate; monobasic calcium phosphate
- —鱧も一期、海老も一期all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too
- —一将功成りて万骨枯るthousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry