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

change (of money) / small change / pocket money

between-meal nibbles / snacks

part / component

fragmentary / random / bits and pieces / sporadic

to retail / to sell individually or in small quantities

scattered

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)

incidental expenses / sundries / pocket money

withered / wilted / to wither / to fade / to decay

midnight / to order à la carte / (math.) zero of a function

to fall and wither (like autumn leaves) / (fig.) drifting and homeless

zero degree

in pieces

nibbles / snacks between meals

odd / piecemeal / fragmentary

scattered and fragmentary / scraps / odds and ends

lone / isolated and without help / all alone / solitary

withered and fallen / scattered / sporadic

to pick up bits / to collect scrap material / tidbits / gleanings (used as gossip)

less-than-truck-load freight (LTL) (transportation)

to buy detail / to buy one at a time

temporary job; odd job

Lingling district of Yongzhou city 永州市, Hunan

(idiom) everything broken and in disorder

to shed tears of gratitude (idiom); moved to tears

to break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one / divide and conquer

to shed tears / to weep

to give change / change money

fractional part of a real number / odd fractional remnant / lone person / solitary

to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work

bits and pieces / scattered fragments

variant of 飄零｜飘零

the part of a number which is discarded when rounding down

below zero

to reset to zero / (fig.) to start again from scratch; to go back to square one

to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work

net zero (net-zero carbon emissions)

variant of 凋零

no prior study (in an area of learning)

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

retailer / shopkeeper / retail merchant

zero-sum (game, in economics etc)

shop / retail store

pocket money / allowance

(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

variant of 孤苦伶仃

to start from scratch

Ground Zero

floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position

absolute zero

close to zero

variant of 伶仃

in disorder / a complete mess

spare part / component

Charter 08, PRC pro-democracy petition of December 2008

zero power reactor

(coll.) snack food

zero-sum game (economics)

zero tolerance

gig economy

zero waste

lit. zero group / another word for the inert or noble gases 惰性氣體｜惰性气体

zero-day (attack, vulnerability etc) (computing)

zero-day vulnerability (computing)

midnight / zero hour

zero curvature / flat

petty cash

pocket money / allowance / spending money

small change

zero wait state (computing)

zero defect / faultless / impeccable

(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)

(slang) bottom (in a homosexual relationship)

(epidemiology) patient zero

from zero / from scratch / beginners' (course) / for beginners

zero distance / face-to-face

spare part; component

Lingling district of Yongzhou city 永州市, Hunan

bit and pieces / small odds and ends

erhua variant of 零雜｜零杂

odd / scrap / remainder

zero point five, 0.5 / one half

Hilbert's zeros theorem (math.) / Nullstellensatz

zero-point energy (quantum mechanical vacuum effect)

nonzero