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


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