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餘

yú

excess, remainder

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 余 represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

飠  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

余 sound component

余  Sound component

yú

  

I

Evolution

餘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

余 (餘) 

yú

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

馀 (餘) 

Yú

surname Yu

馀 (餘) 

yú

variant of 餘|余[yú], remainder

Most common words with 餘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

其余

the rest

业余

in one's spare time

剩余

remainder

余地

margin

余额

surplus

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*la

yo

yú

remains; surplus


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

15

Simplified

余馀

Unicode

U+9918

Shuowen

“餘，饒也。从食，余聲。”


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