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Stroke order
零 is written in 13 strokes.
- 零
Senses
- zero
- nought
- zero sign
- fractional
- fragmentary
- odd (of numbers)
- (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one)
- fraction
- (in mathematics) remainder (after division)
- extra
- to wither and fall
- to wither
Example sentences
- 零不是大数字。Líng bù shì dà shùzì.Zero is not a big number.
- 我会写零到十。Wǒ huì xiě líng dào shí.I can write zero to ten.
- 这个字是零吗？Zhè gè zì shì líng ma?Is this character zero?
- 我没有零块钱。Wǒ méiyǒu líng kuài qián.I have no small change (zero money).
Related words
零 is pronounced líng and means “cero”. You will meet it in HSK 2, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 零 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.