fragmentary; piecemeal; a small amount (adj.)
HSK 6
Traditional
零星 (unaltered)
Radicals
Stroke order
Examples
这个地区只有零星的居民。 Zhège dìqū zhǐyǒu língxīng de jūmín. - There are only scattered residents in this area.
她只得到了零星的信息。 Tā zhǐ dédàole língxīng de xìnxī. - She only got sporadic information.
这些问题只能在零星时间里解决。 Zhèxiē wèntí zhǐ néng zài língxīng shíjiān lǐ jiějué. - These problems can only be solved in sporadic periods of time.
他们在零星的火灾中失去了许多财产。 Tāmen zài língxīng de huǒzāi zhōng shīqùle xǔduō cáichǎn. - They lost a lot of property in sporadic fires.
他们在零星时间里完成了这项工作。 Tāmen zài língxīng shíjiān lǐ wánchéngle zhè xiàng gōngzuò. - They completed this work in sporadic periods of time.
Characters
零 líng - zero | HSK 2
星 xīng - star, heavenly body; star-shaped object; celebrity; particle, bit; (of a steelyard) weight marks |