零下

Chinese

Etymology 1

		remnant; zero; to fall	under; next; lower under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter
trad. (零下)		零	下
simp. ^#(零下)		零	下

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): língxià

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴ haa⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lêng-hā

(Teochew, Peng'im): lêng⁵ ê⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: língxià
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: língsià
  - Wade–Giles: ling²-hsia⁴
  - Yale: líng-syà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lingshiah
  - Palladius: линся (linsja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ling⁴ haa⁶
  - Yale: lìhng hah
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴ haa⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ling⁴ ha⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹ haː²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng-hā
  - Tâi-lô: lîng-hā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lengha
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³⁻³³ ha³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ ha³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lêng⁵ ê⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lêng ĕ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /leŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ e³⁵/

Adjective

零下

(attributive) subzero, below zero
零下二十度 ― língxià èrshí dù ― 20 degrees below zero

Etymology 2

		remnant; zero; to fall	under; next; lower under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter
trad. (零下)		零	下
simp. ^#(零下)		零	下

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): lang⁵ ê⁷

Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lang⁵ ê⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lâng ē
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /laŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ e¹¹/

Adverb

零下

(Teochew) sometimes; occasionally

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 有時 (“sometimes; at times; now and then”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		有時, 有時候, 偶爾, 間或
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	晃晃兒
	Taiwan	有時候
	Singapore	有時候
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	有時候
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	有時候兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	時早晚兒, 時不早晚兒, 時不時
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	久不久, 時不時
Cantonese	Guangzhou	有陣時, 間中, 間或, 耐不耐, 耐唔耐, 耐耐, 耐時, 耐中, 耐唔中, 久時久, 久唔久, 久不久
	Hong Kong	有時, 有陣時, 有時候, 間中, 間唔中, 間唔時, 耐唔耐, 耐耐, 耐不耐, 耐唔時, 久唔久, 久不久, 一時時, 時不時
	Dongguan	耐不耐, 久久
Gan	Nanchang	有時間
Gan	Pingxiang	有時會
Hakka	Meixian	間中, 下把仔, 成下仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	有成時, 成時, 成擺, 一半下
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	有成時, 下把仔, 有時節, 成時, 成下仔, 成擺
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	有成時, 成時, 下把, 成下, 成擺, 一半下
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	有成時, 成半下, 成時, 下把, 下把下, 成下, 成擺, 一半下
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	有成時, 成時, 下把, 成下, 成擺, 一半下
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	有時務, 一半下, 一半時務, 一半擺
Southern Min	Xiamen	有時陣, 有當時, 拄陣, 拄時陣
	Quanzhou	有時陣, 拄陣, 拄時陣
	Shishi	有陣
	Zhangzhou	有時陣, 有時仔, 有當時
	Tainan	有當時仔, 有時陣, 拄時陣, 拄著仔, 有時仔 GT, 有時 GT, 罕罕仔 GT
	Singapore (Hokkien)	有當時, 有時陣
	Manila (Hokkien)	有時陣, 有陣仔, 有陣時, 有陣, 有當時
	Puning	零下, 零𫢗時
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	耐耐
Wu	Shanghai	有常時, 有辰光, 常時, 難板, 有常
	Shanghai (Chongming)	有常時, 有辰光
	Hangzhou	有時光
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
零	下
れい Grade: S	か Grade: 1
kan'on

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) れーか [réꜜèkà] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ːka̠]

Noun

零(れい)下(か) • (reika)

sub-zero

Korean

Hanja in this term
零	下

Noun

零下 • (yeongha) (hangeul 영하)

hanja form^? of 영하 (“temperature below zero”)