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number HSK 1 #3,623

Meanings

  1. 1 zero

Characters

(rain) + (order) — scattered raindrops, hence 'fragments' and 'zero'

Examples

Jīntiān líng xià shí dù.
It's minus ten degrees today.
Yì bǎi líng yī.
One hundred and one.

Tips

usage
When saying phone numbers or room numbers, Chinese people often use for 0. For the digit 0 in math or tech contexts, 〇 (a circle) is also used.
grammar
In numbers, is used as a placeholder when there are skipped place values: 101 = 一百零一, 1001 = 一千零一. Only one is needed regardless of how many zeros.

Stroke Order

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