One radical 一 (yī): 26 characters

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}One radical 一 (yī): 26 characters一 (yī) is Kangxi radical no. 1, “one”. In this form it is written with 1 stroke.As a radical, 一 (yī) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “one” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.The characters range from 1 to 7 strokes. 10 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 9 have a full word page of their own.Good ones to start with: 一 (yī) one, 七 (qī) seven, 三 (sān) three, 上 (shàng) up / above / on.Characters with this radical1 stroke

一 (yī) - one

2 strokes

七 (qī) - seven

丁 (dīng) - male adult

3 strokes

三 (sān) - three

上 (shàng) - up / above / on

下 (xià) - down / below / under

万 (wàn) - ten thousand

丈 (zhàng) - measure of length

与 (yǔ) - and

4 strokes

不 (bù) - not / no

专 (zhuān) - concentrated, specialized

丑 (chǒu) - clown

丐 (gài) - to beg for alms

5 strokes

东 (dōng) - east

且 (qiě) - and

世 (shì) - generation, era, age

业 (yè) - line of business

丙 (bǐng) - third in order

丛 (cóng) - cluster

丘 (qiū) - mound

丝 (sī) - silk

6 strokes

丢 (diū) - to lose

亚 (yà) - Asia

夹 (jiā) - to press from either side

7 strokes

两 (liǎng) - two / both

严 (yán) - tight (closely sealed)

All characters · 丨 (gǔn) →Data sources

Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License