Pinyin: líng

zero

Example sentence

十点零五分。

Shí diǎn líng wǔ fēn.

Five past ten.

What 零 means

(líng) is a Chinese word meaning “zero”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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