餘

See also: 余 and 馀

Translingual

Traditional	餘
Shinjitai	余
Simplified	余/馀

Alternative forms

• In Japanese kyūjitai and Korean hanja, this character is written with the left component 𩙿 which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In traditional Chinese and Vietnamese Nôm, the left component is written 飠 instead.

Han character

餘 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+7, 15 strokes in Chinese, 16 strokes in Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 人戈人一木 (OIOMD), four-corner 8879₄, composition ⿰飠余(GHTV) or ⿰𩙿余(JK))

Derived characters

• 𬉣, 𮣧, 𧃋

Related characters

• 余 (Japanese shinjitai and simplified Chinese) - Note that 余 and 餘 are unrelated in traditional Chinese
• 馀 (Non-standard form in mainland China. Only used when it is desirable to distinguish 餘 from 余)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1420, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44185
• Dae Jaweon: page 1945, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4456, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9918

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Chinese

trad.		餘
simp.		余*/馀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 餘
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (余) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
斜	*lja, *laː
茶	*rlaː
荼	*rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː
梌	*rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
搽	*rlaː
塗	*rlaː, *l'aː
佘	*ɦlja
賒	*hljaː
畬	*hljaː, *la
舍	*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
捨	*hljaːʔ
騇	*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
涻	*hljaːs
稌	*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ
悇	*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las
庩	*l̥ʰaː
捈	*l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
途	*l'aː
酴	*l'aː
駼	*l'aː
鵌	*l'aː, *la
涂	*l'aː, *l'a
嵞	*l'aː
峹	*l'aː
筡	*l'aː, *l̥ʰa
蒤	*l'aː
徐	*lja
俆	*lja
敘	*ljaʔ
漵	*ljaʔ
除	*l'a, *l'as
篨	*rla
滁	*rla
蒢	*rla
蜍	*ɦlja, *la
鵨	*hljaː
瑹	*hlja
余	*la
餘	*la
艅	*la
狳	*la
雓	*la
悆	*las

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *la) : semantic 食 + phonetic 余 (OC *la).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 餘

1. to remain; to have left
2. time after an event
3. over; more than
4. long
5. remainder
6. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 余 (yú, “I”).
7. salt
8. a surname

Usage notes

In simplified Chinese, 馀 is a non-standard form of 餘 only used as a surname or when it is desirable to distinguish 餘 from 余.

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yé (ye²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yé
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yé
    • Wade–Giles: yeh²
    • Yale: yé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ye
    • Palladius: е (je)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ³⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 餘

1. Only used in 緒餘／绪余 (xùyú).

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Japanese

Shinjitai	余
Kyūjitai	餘

Kanji

餘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 余)

1. Kyūjitai form of 余.
2. (rare) be left over

Readings

• On (unclassified): よ (yo)
• Kun: あまる (amaru)

Usage notes

余 is the preferred form used in modern Japanese.

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Korean

Hanja

餘 • (yeo) (hangeul 여, revised yeo, McCune–Reischauer yŏ, Yale ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 餘 (dư, thừa)

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References

• Nom Foundation