KANAE
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一

いっしょう isshōいっすん issunいっぽ ippoいちにち ichinichi

one

Composition

1

Origin

A single horizontal stroke stands for the number one.

In the thoughts

  1. 一歩ippoone step
  2. 一見ikkenone look
  3. 一兎ittoone hare
  4. 一期ichigoone lifetime
  5. 一会ichieone meeting
  6. 一石issekione stone
  7. 一日ichinichione day
  8. 一善ichizenone good deed

Proverbs carrying this character

  1. 003 A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
  2. 018 Hearing a hundred times is not worth seeing once.
  3. 040 He who chases two hares catches neither.
  4. 068 One life, one meeting.
  5. 069 One stone, two birds.
  6. 070 Each day, one good deed.
  7. 075 A hundred harms, not one benefit.
  8. 079 The tallest dike fails through an ant's hole.
  9. 088 To ask is a moment's shame; not to ask is a lifetime's shame.
  10. 112 One inch ahead lies darkness.
  11. 113 Even a one-inch insect has half an inch of spirit.
  12. 117 Standing, half a tatami; lying, one tatami.
  13. 120 One thing tells all things.
  14. 126 One leaf falls, and we know autumn is coming to the world.
  15. 132 One aim, whole heart.
  16. 150 Hear one, understand ten.
  17. 159 The year's plan is drawn on New Year's morning.
  18. 163 Skinny frog, do not give up — Issa is here.
  19. 173 Honesty is the treasure of a lifetime.
  20. 180 In a thousand thoughts, one slip.
  21. 184 To gain one life out of nine deaths.
  22. 186 A full turn of the heart.
  23. 189 A resolute will pierces even rock.
  24. 200 A man's life is a long road walked under a burden; there is no need to hurry.
  25. 227 A morning glory — one single bloom, the blue of a deep abyss.
  26. 237 One meeting in a thousand years.
  27. 254 One single thread, from head to tail.
  28. 285 Do not count an inch of time as nothing.
  29. 302 One step a day: in three days, three steps.

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