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How did 零 came to mean zero?
How did 东西 come to mean “something” in the expression “吃东西”?How is the Kanji character 豚 related to the chinese 猪 / 豬Development of 輸Meaning of 白 in words for “nonsense”?快: why does “fast” also mean “happy”?Character 瞓: where did the pronunciations come from?或: how did “region” become “either”?Why “保重” means “take care”?Glyph origin of 我 - How did 我's radicals 手 and 戈 create the meaning of 我?What is the implied meaning of 社会人
I understand that 零 originally meant rain, however for some reason it eventually became fragments then also zero. How did the meaning of this character shifted to become also fragments (rain drops, maybe?) and, then, to mean also zero?
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I understand that 零 originally meant rain, however for some reason it eventually became fragments then also zero. How did the meaning of this character shifted to become also fragments (rain drops, maybe?) and, then, to mean also zero?
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I understand that 零 originally meant rain, however for some reason it eventually became fragments then also zero. How did the meaning of this character shifted to become also fragments (rain drops, maybe?) and, then, to mean also zero?
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I understand that 零 originally meant rain, however for some reason it eventually became fragments then also zero. How did the meaning of this character shifted to become also fragments (rain drops, maybe?) and, then, to mean also zero?
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零 originally meant rain
Not just rain, but specifically gentle rain.
《說文・雨部》：＂零，徐雨也。＂
Semantic extension:
Gentle rain > scattered/fragmentary > small/fractional > zero.
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google ＂零＂词源说明 get e.g. https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%B6/36714 零，是形声字，古同“泠”，清凉。从雨令声，令为领省，即暴雨之前零星的雨滴，《说文》，“零，余雨也”。疾雨曰骤，徐雨曰零，久雨曰苦。引申出零落、零丁等义。古文中零非数词，近代以后方假借为数词。
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https://www.zhihu.com/question/28741992/answer/41996789
零 hadn't meant 0 in the ancient Chinese. It just because 10X reads 一百零几 -- means more than 100, so 零 filled up the position of 0 when the 0 conception came into Chinese.
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零 originally meant rain
Not just rain, but specifically gentle rain.
《說文・雨部》：＂零，徐雨也。＂
Semantic extension:
Gentle rain > scattered/fragmentary > small/fractional > zero.
answered May 5 at 6:17
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零 originally meant rain
Not just rain, but specifically gentle rain.
《說文・雨部》：＂零，徐雨也。＂
Semantic extension:
Gentle rain > scattered/fragmentary > small/fractional > zero.
answered May 5 at 6:17
drooozedroooze
9,2011924
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零 originally meant rain
Not just rain, but specifically gentle rain.
《說文・雨部》：＂零，徐雨也。＂
Semantic extension:
Gentle rain > scattered/fragmentary > small/fractional > zero.
answered May 5 at 6:17
drooozedroooze
9,2011924
零 originally meant rain
Not just rain, but specifically gentle rain.
《說文・雨部》：＂零，徐雨也。＂
Semantic extension:
Gentle rain > scattered/fragmentary > small/fractional > zero.
answered May 5 at 6:17
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google ＂零＂词源说明 get e.g. https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%B6/36714 零，是形声字，古同“泠”，清凉。从雨令声，令为领省，即暴雨之前零星的雨滴，《说文》，“零，余雨也”。疾雨曰骤，徐雨曰零，久雨曰苦。引申出零落、零丁等义。古文中零非数词，近代以后方假借为数词。
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google ＂零＂词源说明 get e.g. https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%B6/36714 零，是形声字，古同“泠”，清凉。从雨令声，令为领省，即暴雨之前零星的雨滴，《说文》，“零，余雨也”。疾雨曰骤，徐雨曰零，久雨曰苦。引申出零落、零丁等义。古文中零非数词，近代以后方假借为数词。
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google ＂零＂词源说明 get e.g. https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%B6/36714 零，是形声字，古同“泠”，清凉。从雨令声，令为领省，即暴雨之前零星的雨滴，《说文》，“零，余雨也”。疾雨曰骤，徐雨曰零，久雨曰苦。引申出零落、零丁等义。古文中零非数词，近代以后方假借为数词。
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google ＂零＂词源说明 get e.g. https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9B%B6/36714 零，是形声字，古同“泠”，清凉。从雨令声，令为领省，即暴雨之前零星的雨滴，《说文》，“零，余雨也”。疾雨曰骤，徐雨曰零，久雨曰苦。引申出零落、零丁等义。古文中零非数词，近代以后方假借为数词。
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https://www.zhihu.com/question/28741992/answer/41996789
零 hadn't meant 0 in the ancient Chinese. It just because 10X reads 一百零几 -- means more than 100, so 零 filled up the position of 0 when the 0 conception came into Chinese.
answered May 6 at 3:35
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https://www.zhihu.com/question/28741992/answer/41996789
零 hadn't meant 0 in the ancient Chinese. It just because 10X reads 一百零几 -- means more than 100, so 零 filled up the position of 0 when the 0 conception came into Chinese.
answered May 6 at 3:35
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https://www.zhihu.com/question/28741992/answer/41996789
零 hadn't meant 0 in the ancient Chinese. It just because 10X reads 一百零几 -- means more than 100, so 零 filled up the position of 0 when the 0 conception came into Chinese.
answered May 6 at 3:35
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https://www.zhihu.com/question/28741992/answer/41996789
零 hadn't meant 0 in the ancient Chinese. It just because 10X reads 一百零几 -- means more than 100, so 零 filled up the position of 0 when the 0 conception came into Chinese.
answered May 6 at 3:35
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