一 yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
一无所有
yìwúsuǒyǒu
to have nothing at all
Characters in this word
有 yǒu
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- Made of
- 𠂇 hand 月 moon
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 战争结束后，许多家庭几乎一无所有，却仍然重建了生活。 Zhànzhēng jiéshù hòu, xǔduō jiātíng jīhū yìwúsuǒyǒu, què réngrán chóngjiàn le shēnghuó. After the war ended, many families had almost nothing, yet still rebuilt their lives.
- 破产后他一无所有，只好从头再来。 Pòchǎn hòu tā yīwúsuǒyǒu, zhǐhǎo cóngtóu zàilái. After going bankrupt he had nothing at all and had to start over from scratch.
- 离家那天，他身上一无所有，只带着一张旧照片。 Líjiā nà tiān, tā shēnshang yīwúsuǒyǒu, zhǐ dàizhe yī zhāng jiù zhàopiàn. The day he left home, he had nothing on him except an old photograph.
Related words
- 一 yī one
- 一半 yíbàn half
- 一会儿 yíhuìr a moment, a little while
- 一块儿 yíkuàir together
- 一下儿 yíxiàr a bit, briefly (after a verb)
- 一样 yíyàng the same, alike
- 一边 yìbiān one side; while (doing two things at once)
- 一点儿 yìdiǎnr a little, a bit
- 一起 yìqǐ together
- 一些 yìxiē some, a few
- 不一定 bùyídìng not necessarily
- 不一会儿 bùyíhuìr in a short while