零

In Japan, Korea and Traditional Chinese jiu zixing, the bottom component 令 is written 亼 + 𰆊, similar to its Kangxi dictionary form. In traditional Chinese as defined by Taiwan MOE and Hong Kong CLIAC, 令 is written 亼 + マ. In simplified Chinese, the component 令 is written 亽 + マ.

零 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一月人戈戈 (MBOII), four-corner 1030₇, composition ⿱⻗令)

• 㩕 㬡 㯪 澪 燯 鿅 䌢 䙥 䴫 䴇 蕶
• 𠏡 𠟨 𨞖 𪞮 𨗺 𤖜 𤾨 𥋞 𥖟 𥢴 𥼸 𦪩 𨆖 𨣖 𨭭 𩁎 𩟃 𩪥 𪋪
• 𮋔 𮘿

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1372, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42242
• Dae Jaweon: page 1880, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4061, character 1
• Unihan data for U+96F6

• Unihan data for U+F9B2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *riːŋ, *reːŋ, *reːŋs): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs). On the oracle bone script, only thick raindrops are depicted falling from the sky.

Unclear. Schuessler (2007) proposes several possibilities:

• From Austroasiatic; compare Khmer ភ្លៀង (phliəng, “rain”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(p)liɲ ~ *(p)liəɲ ~ (p)liiɲ (“sky, rain”).
• Possibly related to Jingpho marang (“rain”), for which STEDT sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-raŋ (“rain”). Starostin also relates it to this Jingpho word and sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rēŋ (“to drop”), also comparing Tibetan སྤྲིན (sprin, “cloud”) and Burmese ရည် (rany, “liquid; juice”).
• Possibly related to 隕 (OC *ɢunʔ, “to drop”) and 霣 (OC *ɢunʔ, “to rain; to fall down like rain”) if one assumes Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/s/g-wa (“water; rain”) (or its variant *rwe-) can be simplified to *re- and *we-.

Sense "zero" is introduced in 1248 by by Chinese mathematician Li Ye.

零

1. fragmentary; scattered

   零星  ―  língxīng  ―  fragmentary

2. fraction; remainder
4. zero [from 1248]

   Alternative form: 〇

   Coordinate terms: 正數 / 正数 (zhèngshù), 負數 / 负数 (fùshù)

   Hypernyms: 實數 / 实数 (shíshù), 有理數 / 有理数 (yǒulǐshù), 整數 / 整数 (zhěngshù)

   一減一等於零。／一减一等于零。  ―  Yī jiǎn yī děngyú líng.  ―  One minus one equals zero.

   三點零五分／三点零五分  ―  sān diǎn líng wǔ fēn  ―  three oh five

   七百零三  ―  qī bǎi líng sān  ―  seven hundred and three

   二零零一年  ―  èrlínglíngyī nián  ―  year 2001

   從零開始／从零开始  ―  cóng líng kāishǐ  ―  Start from scratch

5. (Cantonese, Hakka, Northern Min, Eastern Min) Used after a number or a classifier to express a small remaining quantity.

   廿零蚊 [Cantonese]  ―  jaa⁶ leng⁴ man¹ [Jyutping]  ―  twenty-something dollars

   分零兩分鐘／分零两分钟 [Cantonese]  ―  fan¹ leng⁴ loeng⁵ fan¹ zung¹ [Jyutping]  ―  one to two minutes

   七十零 [Cantonese]  ―  cat¹ sap⁶ leng^4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  seventy-something

6. (gay slang) bottom

   Alternative form: 0

7. (obsolete) drizzle
9. (literary, of precipitation or tears) to fall

   感激涕零  ―  gǎnjītìlíng  ―  grateful to tears

   • 念彼共人，涕零如雨。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Niàn bǐ gòng rén, tì líng rú yǔ. [Pinyin]

     I think of those [at court] in their offices,
     And my tears flow down like rain.

   • 今當遠離，臨表涕零，不知所言。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     今当远离，临表涕零，不知所言。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 227, 諸葛亮 (Zhūgě Liàng) (Zhuge Liang), 前出師表 (Former Chu Shi Biao)

     Jīn dāng yuǎnlí, lín biǎo tì líng, bù zhī suǒ yán. [Pinyin]

     Now I must leave [for battle] far away. As I face this memorial, my tears fall, and I know not what I have said.

10. (of plants or flowers) to wither and fall

    凋零  ―  diāolíng  ―  to wither and fall

11. (Cantonese, cant, in 之辰代碼 / 之辰代码) six

    斗零 [Cantonese]  ―  dau² ling^4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  five-cent coin (literally, “[coin with mass of] 3 candareens and 6 cash”)

12. a surname

Others:

• → Bouyei: lingz
• → Lü: ᦟᦲᧃᧉ (liin²)
• → Zhuang: lingz

In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant 幺 for the numeral 一 in Mandarin.

零

1. only used in 先零／先零 and 西零／西零 (Xīlián)

• “零”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “零”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 275.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. spill
2. zero

From Middle Chinese 零 (MC leng); compare Mandarin 零 (líng):

• Go-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}
• Kan-on: れい (rei, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 零 (MC len); compare Mandarin 零 (lián):

• Go-on: れん (ren)
• Kan-on: れん (ren)

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: こぼす (kobosu, 零す)、こぼる (koboru, 零る)、こぼれる (koboreru, 零れる)、おちる (ochiru, 零ちる)、あゆ (ayu, 零ゆ)、あえる (aeru, 零える)、あえす (aesu, 零えす)、あやす (ayasu, 零やす)、しずく (shizuku, 零)^{←しづく (siduku, 零, historical)}、ゼロ (zero, 零)

From Middle Chinese 零 (MC leng) with an original meaning of a small rainfall. The character was later repurposed in 1248 by mathematician Li Ye as a placeholder, extending from its a little bit (of rain) meaning to indicate a bit more remaining. In Li Ye's notation, a number like 302 would be represented as 三百零二 (èr), literally three hundred and remaining two, with the 零 character used as a means of skipping the tens place, by indicating zero tens.^[1] It would thus implicitly take on the meaning of zero.

• 〇

• (Tokyo) れー [réꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ː]

零(れい) • (rei) 

1. zero

零(れい) • (rei) 

1. zero

The 〇 spelling is more common in numeric notation.

零(れい) • (Rei) 

1. a male given name

From Middle Chinese 零 (MC leng|lengH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɾjʌ̹ŋ] ~ [jʌ̹ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [령/영]

Wikisource

零 (eumhun 떨어질 령 (tteoreojil ryeong), word-initial (South Korea) 떨어질 영 (tteoreojil yeong))

1. hanja form^? of 령/영 (“zero”)

From Middle Chinese 零 (MC len).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɾjʌ̹n] ~ [jʌ̹n]
• Phonetic hangul: [련/연]

Wikisource

零 (eumhun 종족 이름 련 (jongjok ireum ryeon), word-initial (South Korea) 종족 이름 연 (jongjok ireum yeon))

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• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]
• Zonmal.com Hanja Dictionary (존말닷컴 한자사전／漢字辭典) (2002-2005). [3]

零: Hán Nôm readings: lênh, linh, rinh

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