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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic  + semantic 

余 余 余 余
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character [edit]

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

  1. I, my, me
  2. A surname
  3. (as Simplified form of ) surplus

Derived terms [edit]

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale yu4)


Japanese [edit]

Suffix [edit]

(hiragana , romaji -yo)

  1. over, more than

Synonyms [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Related terms [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised yeo, McCune-Reischauer yŏ)


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin (yu2), Wade-Giles2)

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

Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(, dờ)

References [edit]