壹

See also: 一, 壱, and 弌

§Translingual

§Han character

壹 (radical 33 士+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土月一廿 (GBMT), four-corner 4010₈, composition ⿳士冖豆)

1. number one

§References

• KangXi: page 243, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5661
• Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 467, character 10
• Unihan data for U+58F9

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§Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		壹

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹, jik¹
• Min Nan (POJ): it

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: i¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat¹, jik¹
    • Yale: yāt, yīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷, jik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵/, /jɪk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: it
    • Tâi-lô: it
    • IPA (Taipei): /it̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /it̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (壹, reconstructed)
Character (壹), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 質 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 於悉切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔiɪt̚/	/ʔi̯ĕt̚/	/ʔiĕt̚/	/ʔit̚/	/ʔit̚/	/ĭĕt̚/	/ʔjet̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (壹, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
壹								yī								‹ ʔjit ›								/*ʔi[t]/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
壹					14852					壹					質					1					一					/*qlid/					說文吉聲實懿省文加吉聲

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§Japanese

§Kanji

壹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 壱)

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§Readings

• Goon: いち (ichi)
• Kan’on: いつ (itsu)
• Kun: ひとつ (hitotsu)

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§Korean

§Hanja

壹 (il) (hangeul 일, revised il, McCune-Reischauer il)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

壹 (nhất, nhứt)

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