Chinese Character Wiki
余

yú

I

Pictograph of a small shelter. Based on the original meaning "residence", now written as 舍. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

余 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
余 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
余 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
余 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
余 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

余  

yú

I, my, me; surname; surplus; (archaic) I; me; variant of 餘|余[yú], surplus

余  

Yú

surname Yu

余 (餘) 

yú

surplus, excess, remainder; extra; remaining; remainder after division; (following numerical value) or more; in excess of (some number); residue (math.); after; I

Most common words with 余
Freq.
Word
Meaning

其余

the rest

业余

in one's spare time

剩余

remainder

余地

margin

余额

surplus

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

畬 艅

Sound component in 17 characters (9 verified)

除 餘 途 茶 舍 涂 俞 荼 馀 徐 叙 敘 斜 蜍 狳 酴 嵞

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*la

yo

yú

1sg., prob. a polite form


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.5073% of movies

1296th most common character in movies

729th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Simplified

余

Traditional

余餘

Unicode

U+4F59

Shuowen

“余，語之舒也。从八，舍省聲。，二余也，讀與余同。”


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