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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
- —中流に舟を失えば一壺も千金any port will do in a storm; when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune
- —一河の流れを汲むも他生の縁the events of today are destined by the past; even drawing water from the same river reveals a bond from a former life; even chance relationships can be attributed to the working of fate
- —千丈の堤も蟻の一穴より崩れるa small leak will sink a great ship
- —一樹の陰一河の流れも他生の縁everything is preordained
- —一犬虚に吠ゆれば万犬実を伝うone dog barks at a shadow, and a hundred bark at the sound; it takes one person to start a rumor for the masses to tell it as the truth; gossip travels faster than the truth; when one dog barks at nothing, ten thousand dogs will pass it on as fact
- —サービスの貿易に関する一般協定General Agreement on Trade in Services; GATS
- —聞くは一時の恥、聞かぬは末代の恥better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know
- —問うは一旦の恥、問わぬは末代の恥better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know
- —問うは一度の恥、問わぬは末代の恥better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know
- —聞くは一時の恥、聞かぬは一生の恥better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know
- —子供は３歳までに一生分の親孝行をするchildren pay back their debt to their parents in full by age 3 (through their cuteness)
- —罰一being once divorced; one-time divorcee; one x mark (i.e. one name struck from the family register)
- —一往more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion; pretty much; roughly; so far as it goes; technically; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once
- —一劃one plot (of land); one (city) block; one area; one lot; one brush stroke; one kanji stroke
- —一廓one block; enclosure
- —一割ten percent
- —一箇one (thing); one piece; one item
- —一克a moment; a minute; an instant; stubborn; obstinate
- —一剋a moment; a minute; an instant; stubborn; obstinate
- —一順one round; one tour; one circuit; one patrol