零星 língxīng▶ Esporádico

Stroke order

零星 is written in 22 strokes across 2 characters.

• 零 — 13 strokes
• 星 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. fragmentary; piecemeal; in bits and pieces
2. sporadic; scattered

Related words

• 卫星satélite
• 明星Estrella
• 零件Piezas de repuesto
• 零食aperitivos, tentempiés
• 零钱Cambio, suelto
• 零cero

零星 is pronounced língxīng and means “Esporádico”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 零星 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.