一切
Written yī qiè, said yí qiè — 一 is yí before a fourth tone and yì before the others.
Meaning
- everything
- every
- all
Example sentence
一切正常。
Everything's normal.
Characters in 一切
一 one plus 切 to cut. The sense is everything taken as a single cut of a thing, hence all or the whole of it — used for abstractions where 都 would not fit.