Onyomi: レイ · Kunyomi: こぼ.す, こぼ.れる, ぜろ · Meanings: cipher, nothing, overflow, spill, zero
Kanji for cipher, nothing, overflow, spill, zero
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零 is made from the rain radical ⻗ and the character 令. Rain does not fall all at once but drops little by little. Those small falling drops came to represent something very small or nothing, so 零 came to mean zero.
零 is rain falling little by little until nothing is left.
Imagine light rain ????️ dripping away, drop by drop, until the ground is empty. That feeling of nothing left is 零.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 零 | れい | zero, nought | common JLPT-N5 Noun |
| ０ | ゼロ | zero, 0, nought, nil | common Noun |
| 零点 | れいてん | zero (points, marks), no marks | JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 零れる | こぼれる | to spill, to fall out of, to overflow | common JLPT-N2 JLPT-N1 Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb |
| 零す | こぼす | to spill, to drop, to shed (tears) | common JLPT-N2 JLPT-N1 Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb |
| 零細 | れいさい | insignificant, trifling, paltry, cottage (industry), tiny (company) | common Na-adjective (keiyodoshi) |
| 零下 | れいか | below zero, sub-zero | common Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 落ちぶれる | おちぶれる | to come down in the world, to fall low, to be ruined, to be reduced to poverty, to fall on hard times | Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb |
| 零度 | れいど | zero degrees (Celsius), freezing point | Noun |
| こぼれ落ちる | こぼれおちる | to spill over and fall, to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.) | Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb |