一回

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	to circle; to go back; to turn around to circle; to go back; to turn around; to answer; to return; to revolve; (a measure word for matters or actions) a time; Islam
simp. and trad. (一回)		一	回

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīhuí

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄏㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ wui⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yit-fì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīhuí [Phonetic: yìhuí]
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄏㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yihuéi
    • Wade–Giles: i¹-hui²
    • Yale: yī-hwéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ihwei
    • Palladius: ихуэй (ixuej)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ xu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat¹ wui⁴
    • Yale: yāt wùih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ wui⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ wui⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ wuːi̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-fì
    • Hakka Romanization System: id^ˋ fi^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ fi²
    • Sinological IPA: /it̚² fi¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-fì
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)id^ˋ fi^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ fi²
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)it̚² fi¹¹/

Adverb

一回

1. once
2. for a while

Noun

一回

1. chapter one (of a novel etc)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
一	回
いち > いっ Grade: 1	かい Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spellings
１回 1回

Etymology

Compound of 一 (ichi, “one”) +‎ 回 (kai, “number of times”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) いっかい [ìkkáꜜì] (Nakadaka – [3]) e.g. "一回です", "一回は", "一回の", "一回に"
• (Tokyo) いっかい [ìkkáí] (Heiban – [0]) e.g. "一回+verb", "一回もない", "一回だけ"
• IPA^(key): [ik̚ka̠i]

Pitch accent of 回 depends on what word comes after.

Noun

一(いっ)回(かい) • (ikkai) 

1. one time

   もう一(いっ)回(かい)！

   Mō ikkai!

   Again!

2. one round; one bout

Related terms

Japanese counter/suffix: 回 (かい, kai, "times; occurrences")
Number	Kanji	Kana	Romaji
1	一回	いっかい	ikkai
2	二回	にかい	nikai
3	三回	さんかい	sankai
4	四回	よんかい	yonkai
5	五回	ごかい	gokai
6	六回	ろっかい	rokkai
7	七回	ななかい、しちかい	nanakai, shichikai
8	八回	はっかい、はちかい	hakkai, hachikai
9	九回	きゅうかい	kyūkai
10	十回	じっかい、じゅっかい	jikkai, jukkai
11	十一回	じゅういっかい	jūikkai
12	十二回	じゅうにかい	jūnikai
13	十三回	じゅうさんかい	jūsankai
20	二十回	にじっかい、にじゅっかい	nijikkai, nijukkai
21	二十一回	にじゅういっかい	nijūikkai
100	百回	ひゃっかい	hyakkai
1,000	千回	せんかい	senkai
10,000	一万回	いちまんかい	ichimankai
100,000,000	一億回	いちおくかい	ichiokukai
0	０回、零回	ゼロかい、れいかい	zerokai, reikai
?	何回	なんかい	nankai

See also

• 一(いち)度(ど) (ichido)
• 一(ひと)回(まわ)り (hitomawari)