零

零 — zero, spill, overflow

JLPT: JLPT N2
Strokes: 13
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1217 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: れい rei
Kun'yomi: ぜろ zero

こぼ.す kobo.su

こぼ.れる kobo.reru

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 零

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