"〇" meaning in All languages combined

See 〇 on Wiktionary

Character [Chinese]

Etymology: It is considered a placeholder for a missing Chinese character. Used to express a zero digit in a number since at least the (c.) 12th century, perhaps even earlier than the concept "zero" appeared in the Chinese language. Also written as □ in early literature. Etymology templates: {{zh-l|□}} □
  1. Tags: no-gloss
    Sense id: en-〇-zh-character-47DEQpj8 Related terms: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 十千 [Malaysia, Singapore], 百萬, 百万, 桶(Philippines), 面桶 [Philippines], , 亿, 兆萬億 [Mainland-China, Taiwan], 万亿 [Mainland-China, Taiwan], , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Categories (other): Beginning Mandarin, Chinese cardinal numbers, Chinese numbers, Chinese numeral symbols Disambiguation of Beginning Mandarin: 0 0 Disambiguation of Chinese cardinal numbers: 0 0 Disambiguation of Chinese numbers: 0 0 Disambiguation of Chinese numeral symbols: 0 0

Character [Chinese]

Etymology: Coined by Chinese empress regnant Wu Zetian. One of the Chinese characters of Empress Wu. Etymology templates: {{coinage|zh|Wu Zetian|nat=Chinese|occ=empress regnant}} Coined by Chinese empress regnant Wu Zetian
  1. Tags: no-gloss
    Sense id: en-〇-zh-character-47DEQpj81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2 Categories (other): Beginning Mandarin, Chinese cardinal numbers, Chinese numbers, Chinese numeral symbols Disambiguation of Beginning Mandarin: 0 0 Disambiguation of Chinese cardinal numbers: 0 0 Disambiguation of Chinese numbers: 0 0 Disambiguation of Chinese numeral symbols: 0 0

Symbol [Japanese]

Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (ゼロ)), zero [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from English zero. Head templates: {{ja-pos|symbol|ゼロ}} 〇(ゼロ) • (zero)
  1. Used to write zero in kanji positional notation.
    Sense id: en-〇-ja-symbol-lIC-hFmv Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese numeral symbols, Japanese symbols, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of Japanese numeral symbols: 84 16 Disambiguation of Japanese symbols: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Symbol [Japanese]

Head templates: {{head|ja|symbol}} 〇
  1. See ○ for the plain circle.
    Sense id: en-〇-ja-symbol-MNG~9wlZ Categories (other): Japanese terms in nonstandard scripts
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Numeral [Zhuang]

Head templates: {{head|za|numeral|head=}} 〇, {{za-head|numeral}} 〇
  1. Sawndip form of lingz (“zero”) Tags: Sawndip, alt-of Alternative form of: lingz (extra: zero)
    Sense id: en-〇-za-num-~jnSIDlW Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Zhuang entries with incorrect language header
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Download raw JSONL data for 〇 meaning in All languages combined (4.7kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.