壹 · Ouyang Xun
Yī (1st tone). The Shuowen Jiezi defines it as 「專壹也。从壺吉聲」 — ‘to be concentrated in one’, built from 壺 (the pot, the vessel) with 吉 (jí, ‘good’) as the phonetic. Xu Shen’s gloss is not ‘the number one’ but wholehearted singleness; the graph’ $9.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart