零
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Definitions
- 1. zero
- 2. nought
- 3. zero sign
- 4. fractional
- 5. fragmentary
- 6. odd (of numbers)
- 7. (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one)
- 8. fraction
- 9. (in mathematics) remainder (after division)
- 10. extra
- 11. to wither and fall
- 12. to wither
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Usage notes
Collocations
Commonly used with 个 (gè) when counting objects, e.g., 零个 (zero items).
Common mistakes
Don't confuse 零 (líng) with 〇 (líng), which is the circular numeral zero used in dates and numbers.
Grammar
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Example Sentences
2 shown今天是 零 度。
我爸一週給我10塊 零 用錢。
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Words Containing 零
lone
below zero
part
to retail
fragmentary
pocket money
change (of money)
between-meal nibbles
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
(onom.) sound of a bell: ding-a-ling
(idiom) everything broken and in disorder
bits and pieces
90s generation
common zeros (of system of equations)
withered
zero-COVID (policy)
to break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one
drifting aimlessly all over the place (idiom)
Ground Zero (refers to the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in 9-11-2001 attack)
to start from scratch
to shed tears of gratitude (idiom); moved to tears
to give change
to pick up bits
to reset to zero
Ground Zero
to shed tears
net zero (net-zero carbon emissions)
to restore sth to its initial state
floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position
fractional part of a real number
absolute zero
close to zero
in pieces
in disorder
spare part
Charter 08, PRC pro-democracy petition of December 2008
zero power reactor
(coll.) snack food
zero-sum (game, in economics etc)
zero-sum game (economics)
retailer
shop
nibbles
no prior study (in an area of learning)
zero tolerance
temporary job; odd job
gig economy
zero degree
zero waste
to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
less-than-truck-load freight (LTL) (transportation)
scattered
to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
the part of a number which is discarded when rounding down
lit. zero group
zero-day (attack, vulnerability etc) (computing)
zero-day vulnerability (computing)
midnight
zero curvature
incidental expenses
petty cash
pocket money
small change
scattered and fragmentary
zero wait state (computing)
zero defect
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
withered and fallen
(epidemiology) patient zero
to buy detail
from zero
zero distance
spare part; component
Lingling district of Yongzhou city 永州市[yǒng zhōu shì], Hunan
Lingling district of Yongzhou city 永州市[yǒng zhōu shì], Hunan
bit and pieces
odd
odd
midnight
zero point five, 0.5
Hilbert's zeros theorem (math.)
zero-point energy (quantum mechanical vacuum effect)
nonzero
to fall and wither (like autumn leaves)