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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
Example Sentences
1 shown我爸一週給我10塊 零 用錢。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 零
(slang) bottom (in a homosexual relationship)
drifting aimlessly all over the place (idiom)
to buy detail
scattered
spare part
close to zero
spare part; component
zero curvature
no prior study (in an area of learning)
zero tolerance
nonzero
to shed tears
to reset to zero
gig economy
floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position
lone
Ground Zero
to give change
(coll.) snack food
to shed tears of gratitude (idiom); moved to tears
below zero
(onom.) sound of a bell: ding-a-ling
to restore sth to its initial state
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
pocket money
bit and pieces
in disorder
Ground Zero (refers to the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in 9-11-2001 attack)
bits and pieces
net zero (net-zero carbon emissions)
common zeros (of system of equations)
zero wait state (computing)
temporary job; odd job
(epidemiology) patient zero
absolute zero
part
small change
zero-point energy (quantum mechanical vacuum effect)
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
Lingling district of Yongzhou city 永州市[yǒng zhōu shì], Hunan
zero-sum game (economics)
zero-sum (game, in economics etc)
to pick up bits
the part of a number which is discarded when rounding down
zero-COVID (policy)
90s generation
(idiom) everything broken and in disorder
Charter 08, PRC pro-democracy petition of December 2008
zero-day (attack, vulnerability etc) (computing)
zero waste
retailer
to start from scratch
zero power reactor
zero degree
to fall and wither (like autumn leaves)
fractional part of a real number
withered
scattered and fragmentary
withered and fallen
shop
Lingling district of Yongzhou city 永州市[yǒng zhōu shì], Hunan
between-meal nibbles
petty cash
odd
odd
midnight
to break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one
from zero
nibbles
fragmentary
to retail
pocket money
incidental expenses
lit. zero group
change (of money)
zero distance
to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
midnight
less-than-truck-load freight (LTL) (transportation)
zero-day vulnerability (computing)
to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
in pieces
zero defect
Hilbert's zeros theorem (math.)
zero point five, 0.5