This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as one; a, an; alone. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is yī. The codepoint has the Numeric value 1.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+4E00 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Radical 1 or radical one (一部) meaning "one" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 1 stroke.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
一 is also the 1st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.