Kanji 一 — "One"
Here is what 一 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "One" stick.
How it is read
いち
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
ひとつ
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
The component and kanji One mean the same thing — one horizontal stroke is the number one!
- ⼀ One
A single stroke counts as the number One, see? Japanese is that simple!
Words that use 一
12 of 66 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 一 いち one
- 一同 いちどう all present, all concerned, all of us
- 一番 いちばん number one, best
- 一つ ひとつ one thing
- 一人 ひとり one person
- 一体 いったい one object, body, what on earth?, generally
- 一気に いっきに in one go, all at once, in a single breath
- 一緒 いっしょ together
- 一度 いちど once, one time
- 一人で ひとりで alone, by oneself
- 一部 いちぶ (one) part, portion, section
- 一杯 いっぱい full, to the utmost
Want 一 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
