(líng) - zero; spirit, soul in Mandarin
língTraditional: 零
HSK 2
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Translation
zero; spirit, soul
Word origin
零 means zero, and also a fine, drizzling rain. It is a phono-semantic compound with the 雨 'rain' radical and the phonetic 令 (lìng); the original sense of light rain extended to remnants and then to nought.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 雨 (rain radical) + 令 (lìng, phonetic)
Stroke order
琌
Examples
零。
Today it is minus five degrees.
零。
He scored zero.
零。
Start from scratch.
零。
I got zero on the exam.
零。
It is zero degrees now.
琌 (líng) - zero; spirit, soul.
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