一息
ひといき · hitoiki · JLPT N1 · noun
breath
🌬️ 一 (one) + 息 (breath): one breath, a single breath-length pause
息 means breath, and 一 means one. Hitoiki is one breath: a short pause to rest, or the effort of one more push.
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.'