いち
Meanings
Numeric
Prefix
1. one; 1
壱, 弌 and 壹 are used in legal documents
Adjective (の)
Suffix
2. best
Adjective (の)
3. first; foremost
Noun
4. beginning; start
5. a (single); one (of many)
before a noun
6. ace (playing card)
7. bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)
Pitch accent
Top 5400
Used in vocabulary (50 in total)
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
one year; some time ago
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
Examples (23 in total)
I couldn't even see one meter in front of me!
She bought a yard of cloth.
A meter is not quite equivalent to a yard.
I want to buy a dozen of those bananas.
The movement added a new page to the history of Japan.
The thing blocking my path was a stone wall of less than 1 meter's height.
The words above the door of the theater were one meter high.
My height is one meter seventy.
Sales went up 13 percent.
It costs 25 euros a metre.
Two pints are equal to a quart.
A team is composed of eleven players.
This rope is 200 yen a meter.
Ten teams competed for the prize.
For further information, see page 16.
The water rose to a level of 10 meters.
We give a 10% discount for cash.
The union is pressing for a ten-percent pay hike.
The company suffered a 15% drop in sales.
The author made ten mistakes in as many pages.
He made a point of reading ten pages every day.
I have read sixty pages, while he has read only ten.
My investments earn about 10 percent a year.