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  *零* | 零* | *零
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
HSK 1
below zero
HSK 2
snack; nibbles
HSK 4
change (of money) / small change / pocket money
HSK 7-9
to retail / to sell individually or in small quantities
HSK 7-9
part / component
HSK 7-9
lone / isolated and without help / all alone / solitary
HSK 7-9
pocket money / allowance
HSK 7-9
withered / wilted / to wither / to fade / to decay
scattered and fragmentary / scraps / odds and ends
fragmentary; piecemeal; in bits and pieces / sporadic; scattered
scattered
midnight / to order à la carte / (math.) zero of a function
Ground Zero
to restore sth to its initial state / to reset (an odometer etc) / to empty (a bank account) / to eradicate (a disease) / (computing) to clear (memory) / to zero (a hard drive)
withered and fallen / scattered / sporadic
zero degree
temporary job; odd job
in pieces
to fall and wither (like autumn leaves) / (fig.) drifting and homeless
to give change (after a cash transaction) / the change (money) given back
(idiom) everything broken and in disorder
to shed tears of gratitude (idiom); moved to tears
in disorder / a complete mess
to break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one / divide and conquer
the part of a number which is discarded when rounding down
incidental expenses / sundries / pocket money
nibbles / snacks between meals
to buy detail / to buy one at a time
bits and pieces / scattered fragments
to shed tears / to weep
odd / piecemeal / fragmentary
to pick up bits / to collect scrap material / tidbits / gleanings (used as gossip)
to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
fractional part of a real number / odd fractional remnant / lone person / solitary
to reset to zero / (fig.) to start again from scratch; to go back to square one
variant of 飄零|飘零
spare part; component
to start from scratch
no prior study (in an area of learning)
net zero (net-zero carbon emissions)
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010
(of a seller) to round down the fractional part of a bill
zero distance / face-to-face
variant of 凋零
variant of 孤苦伶仃
pocket money / allowance / spending money
midnight / zero hour
odd / scrap / remainder
(coll.) snack food
Lingling district of Yongzhou city 永州市, Hunan
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
zero-sum game (economics)
zero defect / faultless / impeccable
(epidemiology) patient zero
zero-point energy (quantum mechanical vacuum effect)
Charter 08, PRC pro-democracy petition of December 2008
nonzero
Hilbert's zeros theorem (math.) / Nullstellensatz
close to zero
zero-sum (game, in economics etc)
retailer / shopkeeper / retail merchant
zero-day (attack, vulnerability etc) (computing)
(slang) bottom (in a homosexual relationship)
from zero / from scratch / beginners' (course) / for beginners
zero waste
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
absolute zero
shop / retail store
zero tolerance
gig economy
(Tw) (fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes
zero wait state (computing)
(onom.) sound of a bell: ding-a-ling
90s generation
common zeros (of system of equations)
zero-COVID (policy)
drifting aimlessly all over the place (idiom)
Ground Zero (refers to the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in 9-11-2001 attack)
ground zero
small sum of money / loose change / Cantonese equivalent of 零錢|零钱
floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position
variant of 伶仃
spare part / component
zero power reactor
to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
less-than-truck-load freight (LTL) (transportation)
lit. zero group / another word for the inert or noble gases 惰性氣體|惰性气体
zero-day vulnerability (computing)
(math.) zero curvature
petty cash
small change
Lingling district of Yongzhou city 永州市, Hunan
bit and pieces / small odds and ends
erhua variant of 零雜|零杂
0.5; a half


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