壱

See also: 壹 and 弌

壱 U+58F1, 壱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58F1 ← 声 [U+58F0] CJK Unified Ideographs 売 → [U+58F2]

Translingual

Japanese	壱
Simplified	壹
Traditional	壹

Han character

壱 (radical 33, 士+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土月心 (GBP), four-corner 4071₂, composition ⿳士冖匕)

Related characters

• 壹 (Orthodox traditional form of 壱)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 243, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5647
• Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 428, character 2
• Unihan data for U+58F1

---

Chinese

Glyph origin

Found in Zhongwen Da Cidian 《中文大辭典》, a dictionary published in Taiwan from 1962 to 1968 that is based on the Japanese Dai Kan-Wa Jiten.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 壱 – see 壹 (“faithful; committed; one, variant of”). (This character, 壱, is a variant form of 壹.)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00834-007

---

Japanese

Shinjitai	壱
Kyūjitai	壹

Glyph origin

Simplified from 壹 (豆 → 匕) in the 1946 Tōyō kanji list.

Kanji

壱

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 壹)

1. number one (used in legal documents)

Readings

• Go-on: いち (ichi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: いつ (itsu)
• Kun: ひとつ (hitotsu, 壱つ)

Compounds

• 壱 (いち)越 (こつ) (ichikotsu): first note of ancient chromatic scale

Etymology

Kanji in this term
壱
いち Grade: S
goon

From Middle Chinese 壹 (MC ʔiɪt̚).

Numeral

壱 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 壹, hiragana いち, rōmaji ichi)

1. one, 1 (used in legal documents)

Affix

壱 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 壹, hiragana いち, rōmaji ichi)

1. Short for 壱岐国 (Iki no kuni, “Iki Province”).