余

See also: 佘, 尒, 餘, and 馀

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 舍 + semantic 八

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

余 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人一木 (OMD), four-corner 8090₄, composition ⿱亼朩)

1. I, my, me
2. a surname
3. (as simplified form of 餘) surplus

Derived terms

• 除, 餘

References

• KangXi: page 99, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 515
• Dae Jaweon: page 208, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 128, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4F59

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		余

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (余, reconstructed)
Character (余), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 魚 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 以諸切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨʌ/	/i̯wo/	/iɔ/	/jiɔ/	/jɨə̆/	/jĭo/	/iɔ/
Character (余), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 麻 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 視遮切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑia/	/ʑi̯a/	/ʑia/	/d͡ʑia/	/d͡ʑia/	/ʑĭa/	/d͡ʑia/

Old Chinese pronunciation (余, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
余								yú								‹ yo ›								/*la/								1sg., prob. a polite form
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
余					15798					余					魚					0					余					/*la/					說文舍省聲，甲文即象居舍初文

Definitions

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Usage notes

• It is itself a traditional Chinese character.
• 餘 is a derived form of 余, which was later simplified into 馀

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Japanese

Suffix

余 (hiragana よ, romaji -yo)

1. over, more than

Synonyms

• 以上

Kanji

余

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: よ (yo)
• Kun: あまる (余る, amaru), われ (ware), あまり (余り, amari)

Compounds

余程 余意 余韻 余栄 余炎 余煙 余暇 余角 余割 余寒 余儀 余技 余興 余業 余薫 余慶 余計 余弦 余光 余香 余罪 余財 余事 余習

余臭 余所 余剰 余情 余色 余震 余人 余塵 余水吐 余水路 余世, 余生 余勢 余切 余接 余賊 余沢 余談 余地 余滴 余党 余得 余徳 余日 余熱

余念 余波 余輩 余白 余病 余風 余分 余憤 余聞 余弊 余芳 余命 余裕 余力 余類 余齢 余烈 余禄 余録 余喘 余殃 余瀝 余燼 余蘊

Related terms

• 余す

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Korean

Hanja

余 (yeo) (hangeul 여, revised yeo, McCune-Reischauer yŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

余 (dư, dờ)

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References

• Nom Foundation