Chinese zero
The Chinese zero (" 〇 "), engl. Ideographic number zero (Unicode), French Zéro idéographique, is encoded in the Unicode block CJK symbols and punctuation under U + 3007, which, as the abbreviation “ CJK ” indicates, contains the Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters .
The symbol 〇 for zero was introduced in 1247 by the mathematician Qin Jiushao (秦九韶) in his work Shushu Jiuzhang ( 數 書 九章 / 数 书九章 , Shùshū Jiǔzhāng , English Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections ).
use
The character is used to write the zero in Chinese numbers written with Chinese characters .
- sānlíngliù hào ( 三 〇 六号 - "No. 306")
- yāojiǔjiǔlíng nián ( 一 九九 〇 年 - "year 1990")
Standard Chinese pronunciation
The character “ 〇 ” is pronounced líng in standard Chinese and, like the word líng (“ 零 ”), is used as a zero (0) character.
Similar and related characters
The character cannot be used with other characters, such as B. the Latin capital letter O , the Latin small letter o or the number zero (0), can be confused.
| character | Unicode position |
Unicode designation |
designation |
|---|---|---|---|
| O | U + 004F | Latin capital letter O | Latin capital letter O |
| O | U + 006F | Latin small letter o | Latin Small Letter O |
| 0 | U + 0030 | Digit zero | Digit zero |
See also
- Digit zero
- Arabic numerals
- CJK
- Japanese numbers
- Korean numbers
- Chinese numbers
- Numbers in different languages
literature
- Xiandai Hanyu cidian [Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese], Beijing 2002, ISBN 7-5600-3195-1 .
- Tang, Jian: "Hanyu O gannianfuhao de lishi laiyuan he xitong" (About the historical origin and the system of the Chinese character for the term "zero") . In: Zhongguo yuwen 5 (1994), pp. 361-367.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shen Kangshen, John N. Crossley, Anthony W.-C. Lun: The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art . Companion & Commentary. Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-853936-3 , pp. 13 ( google.de ).
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