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Kanji Detail for 零 - "zero, to fall"

零

  • Meaning

    零 means "zero, to fall." Also associated with to decline.

    1. Zero - The number 0; nothing.

    2. Fall - To drop gently, like rain.

    3. Small - Tiny; insignificant.

    4. Decline - To fall into ruin.

  • Words using 零

    • 零時 れいじ Listen twelve o'clock; midnight; noon
    • 零細 れいさい Listen insignificant; trifling; paltry
    • 零下 れいか Listen below zero; sub-zero
    • 零れる こぼれる Listen to spill; to fall out of; to overflow

  • Tattoo check: 零

    • Verified meaning: zero, to fall
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read しずく, ぜろ, みお, れい)
    • Also carries these associations: to decline

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 零

    Given names 零(しずく)Listen 零(ぜろ)Listen 零(みお)Listen 零(れい)Listen

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    rei(レイ) レイ

  • Kunyomi

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    kobo.reru(こぼ-れる) こぼ-れる

    kobo.su(こぼ-す) こぼ-す

    zero(ぜろ) ぜろ

  • Strokes

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    13 strokes

  • Radical

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    雨 (ame・amekammuri・amakammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    zero to fall to decline small dropping little overflowing nothing nil null rain moisture emptiness fade

Sentences including 零

  • This means nil.

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