余

See also 餘, and 馀

See also 佘, and 尒

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)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

余 (Yale yu4)

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Japanese

Suffix

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

余 (pinyin yú (yu2), Wade-Giles yü²)

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

余 (dư, dờ)