一一

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)
simp. and trad. (一一)		一	一

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīyī

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ jat¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yit-yit
• Min Nan (POJ): it-it

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yīyī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄧ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ii
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yiyi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat¹ jat¹
    • Yale: yāt yāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ jat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ yed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ jɐt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-yit
    • Hakka Romanization System: id` id`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ yid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /it̚² it̚²/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-yit
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)id` (r)id`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ yid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)it̚² (j)it̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: it-it
    • Tâi-lô: it-it
    • Phofsit Daibuun: it'id
    • IPA (Xiamen): /it̚³²⁻⁴ it̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /it̚⁵⁻²⁴ it̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /it̚³²⁻⁵ it̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /it̚³²⁻⁴ it̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /it̚³²⁻⁴ it̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔiɪt̚  ʔiɪt̚/

Rime
Character	一
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於悉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔit̚/
Li Rong	/ʔiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/ĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yi

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔi[t]  ʔi[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qliɡ  qliɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	一
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yī
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjit ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔi[t]/
English	one
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	一
Reading #	1/1
No.	14833
Phonetic component	一
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	一
Old Chinese	/*qliɡ/

Adverb

一一

1. one by one; one after another

   • 好一一聽之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     好一一听之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Han Feizi, circa 2^nd century BCE

     Hào yīyī tīng zhī. [Pinyin]

     He preferred to listen to them one-by-one.

Synonyms

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• 一個一個地／一个一个地 (yīgè yīgè de)
• 逐一 (zhúyī)

• 逐個／逐个 (zhúgè)