Radical 1
Uni4E00
Meaningone
Pnyyī
Bopo一
Gri
Wadei1
Jyutpingjat1
Yaleyāt
Pojit
Cn橫/横 héng
Onyomiイチ ichi
Kunyomiひと(つ) hito(tsu)
Hang한 han
Hanja일 il
Jp一 ichi
Hanviet一 nhất

Radical 1 or radical one (一部) meaning "one" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 1 stroke. It is the simplest Chinese character in the language due to consisting of only one line.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 60 characters (out of 47,043) to be found under this radical.[1]

一 is also the 1st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters[a]
+0一
+1丁 丂 七 丄 丅 丆
+2万 (also SC/JP form of 萬 -> 艸) 丈 三 上 下 丌 与SC/与JP (also SC/JP form of 與 -> 臼)
+3不 丏 丐 丑SC/JP/丑TC (also SC form of 醜 -> 酉) 丒 (=丑) 专SC (=專 -> 寸)
+4且 丕 世 丘 丙 业SC (=業 -> 木) 丛SC (=叢 => 又) 东SC (=東 -> 木) 丝SC (=絲 -> 糸)
+5丞 丟 丠 両JP (=兩 -> 入)
+6丣 两SC (=兩 -> 入) 严SC (=嚴 -> 口)
+7並 丧SC (=喪 -> 口)

In calligraphy

The only stroke in radical one, known as 橫/横 héng "horizontal", is called 策 cè in the eight principles of the character 永 (永字八法 Yǒngzì Bāfǎ) which are the basis of Chinese calligraphy.

Sinogram

As an isolated character it is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[2] It is a first grade kanji.[2]

References

  1. ^ "️一 部:一丁丂𠀀七丄丅万丈三上下丌𠀃不与丏丐丑𠀇𠀈且丕世𠀍丘㐀丙𠀓㐁丞丟𠀘𠀙𠀚丠丣𠀡𠀦𠀢". kangxizidian.com. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  2. ^ "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived March 24, 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Li, Leyi (1993). Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases. Beijing. ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2.

Notes

  1. ^ Not all possible characters are listed in this table. See Wiktionary.

See also