壹
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Translingual
| Japanese | 壱 |
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| Simplified | 壹 |
| Traditional | 壹 |
Han character
壹 (Kangxi radical 33, 士+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土月一廿 (GBMT), four-corner 40108, composition ⿳士冖豆)
Derived characters
- 𠍼, 噎, 㙪, 嬄, 㦉, 撎, 潱, 𤡬, 曀, 𪳮, 殪, 𤏈, 𦠉, 𪾼, 䊦, 𧬇(𬤞), 豷, 𧴒, 𮚢, 𬬅, 𮧑, 饐(𮩞), 𩻭, 𪆖, 𡬗
- 亄, 𰄿, 𭕀, 㱅, 𧯸, 皼, 𭐚, 㦤, 𡄻, 𡤜, 𫯈, 懿, 𭐛, 𪤴, 𮙙, 鷧(𱊦), 𧰝, 𧹌, 𭅮, 𨶮(𨸌), 𪭁, 𫻢, 𢦁, 𢦆
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 243, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5661
- Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 467, character 10
- Unihan data for U+58F9
Chinese
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 壹 | |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qlid) : semantic 壺 + phonetic 吉 (OC *klid). (Shuowen)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jat1 / jik1
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chi̍t / it
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 7iq
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yi
- Wade–Giles: i1
- Yale: yī
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
- Palladius: и (i)
- Sinological IPA (key): /i⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: jat1 / jik1
- Yale: yāt / yīk
- Cantonese Pinyin: jat7 / jik7
- Guangdong Romanization: yed1 / yig1
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɐt̚⁵/, /jɪk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
Note:
- chi̍t - colloquial;
- it - literary.
- Middle Chinese: 'jit
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔi/
- (Zhengzhang): /*qlid/
Definitions
壹
- (Classical) faithful; committed
- 以懲不壹。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCE
- Yǐ chéng bù yī.
- To punish those not loyal.
以惩不壹。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (financial) one, variant of 一
- 壹發五豝。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Yī fā wǔ bā.
- One shot, five sows.
壹发五豝。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Compounds
See also
| Chinese numbers | |||||||||||||||||
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| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 106 | 108 | 1012 | |
| Normal (小寫／小写) |
〇, 零, 空 | 一, 蜀 | 二, 兩／两 | 三 | 四 | 五 | 六 | 七 | 八 | 九 | 十 | 百 | 千 | 萬／万, 十千 (Malaysia, Singapore) |
百萬／百万, 桶(Philippines), 面桶 (Philippines) |
億／亿 | 兆 (Taiwan) 萬億／万亿 (Mainland China) |
| Financial (大寫／大写) |
零 | 壹 | 貳／贰 | 參／叁 | 肆 | 伍 | 陸／陆 | 柒 | 捌 | 玖 | 拾 | 佰 | 仟 | ||||
References
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00834
- “壹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- “Entry #2”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
Japanese
| 壱 | |
| 壹 |
Kanji
壹
(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 壱)