一 — one

一 means one; one radical in Japanese. It is one of the JLPT N5 kanji every learner meets at that level.

一 is read イチ・イツ・ひと\~・ひと.つ. Reading it inside real words — 一 and 一々 and more — is the fastest way to remember it.

Yes. 一 is on the official JLPT N5 kanji list, so it can appear in that exam's reading and vocabulary sections.

A common word containing 一 is 一 (いち) — "one". More examples are listed below, each with a one-tap dictionary entry.

Read it in context. Import any Japanese article or video into InputDojo and every occurrence of 一 becomes a one-tap lookup with SRS flashcards, so you meet it in real sentences instead of a list.