一緒
いっしょ · issho · JLPT N5 · noun
together
🤝 一緒 = one (一) + thread (緒): tied on one thread = together
一 means one and 緒 means a cord or thread. Things strung on a single thread stay side by side, so the compound came to mean together. Sound hook: issho sounds like is-show — a show is better watched together.
一 — single horizontal stroke
一 is one of the simplest pictographs in Chinese, depicting a single horizontal line to represent the number one. It has retained essentially the same form since oracle bone script over 3,000 years ago. By extension it also means 'first,' 'whole,' or 'same.'