Memory phrase for the character: 零


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Meaning

zero, null, nil, to overflow

Pronunciation

REI
koboreru

Explanation

Top: rain 雨, bottom: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person 卩, That was ordered!)

Mnemonic


 
Due to the rain or an order? Nobody was there. Zero!

Radicals

rainView out of a window 冂 into the rain =,=. The upper line is a rain cloud.
orderBased on "bell 鈴 suzu, REI, RIN", this radical 令 can also be understood as an image of a bell: (The sound of) the bell with the bell mallet 卩 gives now 今 the command (e.g. to come).
coverOther covers are: 冖, 亠 )
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 Vocabulary

れい  zero, nought
零点 れいてん  zero, no marks

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