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零 — stroke order
Watch how to write 零 (líng) stroke by stroke. 零 has 13 strokes and means “zero”. It appears in common words such as 零食 (between-meal nibbles) and 零下 (below zero). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 零
The most common words that use 零 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
零食língshíbetween-meal nibbles零下língxiàbelow zero零點língdiǎnzero零售língshòuto retail凋零diāolíngwithered零星língxīngfragmentary
How 零 is written
- Radical
- 雨
- Components
- 雨 ＋ 令
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 雨 and a phonetic component 令 (raindrop).