零
líng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The number zero, which also fills a gap inside a larger number. 一百零三 is 103; one 零 covers a whole run of zeros, so 1,005 is 一千零五. When numbers are read digit by digit, as in phone numbers, each 0 is 零.
Số không; còn dùng để lấp chỗ trống giữa một số, như “linh”, “lẻ” trong tiếng Việt. 一百零三 là “một trăm linh ba”; dù có mấy số 0 liền nhau cũng chỉ đọc một 零: 一千零五 là “một nghìn không trăm linh năm”. Đọc từng chữ số, như số điện thoại, thì mỗi số 0 là 零.
NumeralRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 零 = linh · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “零” mean?
The number zero, which also fills a gap inside a larger number. 一百零三 is 103; one 零 covers a whole run of zeros, so 1,005 is 一千零五. When numbers are read digit by digit, as in phone numbers, each 0 is 零.
Is “零” formal or informal?
零 is generally neutral.