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Kanji Detail for 零 - "zero, fall, small"

  • Meaning

    零 means "zero, fall, small."

    1. Zero - The number 0; nothing.

    2. Fall - To drop gently, like rain.

    3. Small - Tiny; insignificant.

    4. Decline - To fall into ruin.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    zero; spill; overflow; nothing; cipher

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    zero; fragment, fraction

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    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

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    zero; fragment, fraction

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A gentle rain. To fall. The Book of Odes says: "The seasonable rain has fallen." | Not forming a whole number is called 零. As in numbers counted by thousands, anything less than a thousand is 零. Counted by hundreds, anything less than a hundred is 零. Also, an empty place in a number. As in the number 一零二 is one hundred and two, with the tens place empty.
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