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'''{{tp|wan}}''' is {{a category}} [[content word]] and [[number|number word]] for one.

==Semantic space and function==

The [[semantic space]] of {{tp|wan}} includes different concepts, including unity, individuality, uniqueness, or the state of being {{w|alone}}, among others. It functions as the [[number|number word]] for one. As a [[modifier]], It indicates that the modifying object is a single thing. As a [[head]], it may be used to mean a unit, a single object, or the abstract concept of the number one.

{{Example

| mi moku e kili <mark>wan</mark>.

| I eat <mark>one</mark> fruit.

}}

Notably, if an object or idea consists of multiple smaller individual parts (e.g. a clock consisting of mechanical parts), {{tp|wan}} may be used to describe either an individual [[part]] (a single cog) or the larger whole (the entire clock), depending on context. It can refer to both physical unity and social or conceptual unity.

{{Example

| mi tu li awen <mark>wan</mark>.<ref>{{cite YouTube |id=w7t8Av_FDGo |title={{tok|tawa pi pakala wile}} |author={{tok|[[kala Asi]]}} |channel={{tok|kala Asi}} |handle={{tok|kala_asi}} |date=12 August 2023 |access-date=11 November 2023}}</ref>

| The both of us will stay <mark>together</mark>.

}}

In the [[predicate]], {{tp|wan}} can be used to mean the act of uniting or combining multiple things into a bigger whole.

The {{tp|[[sitelen sitelen]]}} word glyph for {{tp|wan}} ({{ss|wan}}) is composed of a three-knobbed shape with a single "knob" inside. Compare the word glyph for {{tp|[[tu]]}}. The origin of the glyph is unknown, but the knob shape inside might represent a kind of tally mark.

It may be rotated to face any direction, but it is usually written with the knobs facing away from the word(s) it modifies (facing right in left-to-right direction, and facing down in top-to-bottom direction). Similarly with any monosyllabic word, it may also optionally be written with a [[syllable glyph]] ({{ss|WAN}}).