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Cantonese · Jyutping

Mandarin · Pinyin

  • yī

English

  1. one
  2. one
  3. do a bit of something, an infix between the duplication of the first syllable of a verb, meaning the action occurs for a short amount of time, the syllable 一 jat1 may be reduced to a shorter sound or a floating tone that raises the pitch of the previous syllable
  4. one; a
  5. as soon as; once
  6. a, an
  7. single
  8. a diminutive infix between the duplication of a monosyllabic gradable adjective, meaning "really"
  9. alone
  10. a (article)
  11. as soon as
  12. entire; whole; all; throughout
  13. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  14. also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

粵語

  1. 加喺動詞第一音節嘅重疊之中，表示動作短暫，其中「一」字可以弱化成好短嘅音節或者拉高前字嘅浮動調
  2. 1；自然數入面最開頭嗰個
  3. 嗰個瞬間；嗰刻；用嚟喺「就」字句入面，帶出觸發後續事件嘅原因、條件，或者該事件發生嘅時間
  4. 一種小稱中綴，用喺單音節、可以分級嘅形容詞嘅重疊，表示「非常」

Stroke order

As a component in · 1,415

Variants

Words containing 一

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