one

combined with or to prevent forgery in banking statements. Nowadays, is used instead.

Components
一 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

one

弋 distinguishing component

  Distinguishing component

  

to shoot

Used to prevent forgery.

Evolution

弌 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
弌 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
弌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
弌 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
弌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

number one; archaic variant of banker's anti-fraud numeral one

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+5F0C

Shuowen

“一,惟初太始,道立於一,造分天地,化成萬物。弌,古文一。”
Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.38



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