Taxonomy of meanings for 零:　　

  • 零 lìng (OC: ɡ-reeŋs MC: leŋ) 郎定切 去 廣韻：【零落郞定切又魯丁切三 】
  • 零 lián (OC: ɡ-riiŋ MC: len) 落賢切 平 廣韻：【漢書云先零西羌也本力丁切 】
    • BARBARIAN
      • nprP: xiānlián 先 零 branch of the Qiang1 people in the Han dynasty
  • 零 líng (OC: ɡ-reeŋ MC: leŋ) 郎丁切 平 廣韻：【落也説文曰徐雨也又姓出姓苑 】

    Additional information about 零

    說文解字: 【零】，餘雨也。从雨、令聲。 【郎丁切】

      Criteria
    • WITHER

      1. The current general word for anything drying up or withering down, also anything like fish which because of lack of water starts rotting, is kū 枯 (ant. rùn 潤 "moist and lush" and róng 榮 "flourish and thrive").

      2. Gǎo 槁 refers specifically to the withering of plants, or to their withered state. The combination kū gǎo 枯槁 is idiomatic.

      3. Wěi 萎 (ant. shèng 盛 "rich and flourishing") refers to plants (and in a transferred usually permanent sense male sexual organs!) shrivilling up and drying out.

      4. Diāo 凋 (ant. mào 茂 "be flourishing") refers to whole plants withering and losing their leaves as a result, but the word may also refer to the loss of leaved because of frost.

      5. Luò 落 refers abstractly and colourlessly to trees losing their leaves.

      6. Líng 零 refers in a more dramatic way to plants other than trees losing their leaves.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: (WITHER)落/FALL Luò 落 is a rare word which usually refers to the falling of leaves from trees.