  We performed a soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) study of a
Zn$_{1-x}$V$_x$O thin film which showed small ferromagnetic moment. Field and
temperature dependences of V 2$p$ XMCD signals indicated the coexistence of
Curie-Weiss paramagnetic, antiferromagnetic, and possibly ferromagnetic V ions,
quantitatively consistent with the magnetization measurements. We attribute the
paramagnetic signal to V ions substituting Zn sites which are somewhat
elongated along the c-axis.
