The kanji 壱: meaning, readings and stroke order

壱

Meaning: one (formal)
On reading: イチ ichi
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 7
Radical: 士 scholar, bachelor
Level: Level 7 · junior high school
Old form: 壹

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: một (trang trọng) (nhất)
Japanese: いちのむずかしいかきかた。
Korean: 일, 하나 (일)
Chinese: 壹

Readings, words and example sentences

イチ ichi · on reading · less common

壱いち万まん
ten thousand (written with a formal numeral)
しょうしょに 壱いち万まん円と書きます。
I write 10,000 yen on the document in formal numerals.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.