Example sentences
yī一gè个jiù就gòu够。
One is enough.
xiàn现zài在yī一diǎn点。
It's one o'clock.
The story behind the character
一
One horizontal stroke, the simplest character there is. Yet Xu Shen loaded it with the heaviest meaning: 一, 惟初太始: "one, the very beginning, where the Way is set and heaven and earth divide." One stroke, holding up the whole start of the universe. That might be the most weight a single line has ever carried.
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