yī​qué​yī​guǎi

limp

one

A single horizontal stroke, representing the number one.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (2 of 7 verified)

Unknown (2)

Distinguishing (1)

Simplified (1)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'jitʔi[t] one

說文解字

《說文》:“一,惟初太始,道立於一,造分天地,化成萬物。弌,古文一。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

qué lameness

Components

Meaning component
sick

sickness

Sound component
jiā add
Unknown component
ròu meat

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡʷal

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

guǎi kidnap

To take another  by force 

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand
Meaning component
lìng (bones), another

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡʷroːlʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang