壱

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See also: 壹 and 弌
壱 U+58F1, 壱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58F1
← 声
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 売 →

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese 壱
Simplified 壹
Traditional 壹

Han character

壱 (Kangxi radical 33, 士+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土月心 (GBP), four-corner 40712, composition ⿳士冖匕)

Related characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 243, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5647
  • Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 428, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+58F1

Chinese

Glyph origin

Found in Zhongwen Da Cidian 《中文大辭典》, a dictionary published in Taiwan from 1962 to 1968 that is based on the Japanese Dai Kan-Wa Jiten.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 壱 – see 壹 (“faithful; committed; one, variant of”).
(This character is a variant form of 壹).

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

壱

Kyūjitai

壹

Glyph origin

Simplified from 壹 (豆 → 匕) in the 1946 Tōyō kanji list.

Kanji

壱

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 壹)

  1. number one (used in legal documents)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
壱
いち
Grade: S
goon
Alternative spelling
壹 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 壹 (MC 'jit).

Numeral

壱(いち) • (ichi) 

  1. one, 1 (used in legal documents)

Affix

壱(いち) • (ichi) 

  1. Short for 壱岐国 (Iki no kuni, “Iki Province”).
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