壹

壹 U+58F9, 壹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58F9 ← 壸 [U+58F8] CJK Unified Ideographs 壺 → [U+58FA]

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)

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

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 壹
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (壹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
曀	*qiːɡs
殪	*qiːɡs
豷	*qiːɡs, *qʰʷriɡs
懿	*qriɡs
饐	*qriɡs
鷧	*qriɡs
撎	*qriɡs
亄	*qriɡs, *qriɡ
噎	*qiːɡ
壹	*qlid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qlid): semantic 壺 + phonetic 吉 (OC *klid). (Shuowen)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹, jik¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chi̍t / 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
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹, yig¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵/, /jɪk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍t / it
    • Tâi-lô: tsi̍t / it
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cit, id
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕit̚⁴/, /it̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕit̚²⁴/, /it̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕit̚¹²¹/, /it̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕit̚⁴/, /it̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕit̚⁴/, /it̚³²/

Note:

• chi̍t - colloquial;
• it - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔiɪt̚/▼

Rime
Character	壹
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]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qlid/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	壹
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	壹
Reading #	1/1
No.	14852
Phonetic component	壹
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	一
Old Chinese	/*qlid/
Notes	說文吉聲實懿省文加吉聲

Definitions

壹

1. (Classical Chinese) faithful; committed

   • 以懲不壹。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

     以惩不壹。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo

     Yǐ chéng bù yī. [Pinyin]

     To punish those not loyal.

   • 居身儉而用心壹。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

     居身俭而用心壹。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo

     Jū shēn jiǎn ér yòng xīn yī. [Pinyin]

     [He] lives [his] body in frugality and uses [his] heart committedly.

2. one, variant of 一

   • 壹發五豝。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

     壹发五豝。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Classic of Poetry

     Yī fā wǔ bā. [Pinyin]

     One shot, five sows.

Usage notes

• This character is used financially to prevent the written form 一 from being altered to other numerals, e.g. 二,三,五,六,七,九,十,千.

See also

Chinese numbers
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	102	103	104	108	1012
Cardinal	〇	一	二	三	四	五	六	七	八	九	十	百	千	萬 万	億 亿	兆
Financial	零	壹	貳 贰	參 叁	肆	伍	陸 陆	柒	捌	玖	拾	佰	仟	萬 万	億 亿	兆

References

• “Entry #2”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	壱
Kyūjitai	壹

Kanji

壹

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

1. Kyūjitai spelling of 壹 (number one)

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

壹 (nhất, nhứt)

1. one