余 (餘)

  1. noun extra; surplus; remainder
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
    Notes: (ABC 'yú' 余 N 1; Kroll 2015 '餘' 1; NCCED '余' 3; Unihan '餘')
  2. suffix odd
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
    Notes: For example, 百万余人次 'more than a million visits.' (XHN 2015-12-25; ABC 'yú' 余 SUF; NCCED '余' 4)
  3. pronoun I
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Besides its use as a modern simplified variant of 餘, 余 is also a classical first person pronoun. It was also used in pre-classical oracle bone inscrpitions (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 76).
  4. verb to remain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '餘' 2a; NCCED '余' 1)
  5. noun the time after an event
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (NCCED '余' 2)
  6. noun the others; the rest
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '餘' 2b)
  7. noun additional; complementary
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '餘' 3)

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  • 乌余 (烏餘) 齊烏餘以廩丘奔晉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
  • 余子 (餘子) 梁餘子養御罕夷 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 閔公 Lord Min — count: 5
  • 杀余 (殺餘) 女為惠公來求殺余 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
  • 余敢 (餘敢) 余敢貪天子之命無下拜 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
  • 余不忍 (餘不忍) 余不忍益也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 4
  • 掩余 (掩餘) 掩餘帥左 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
  • 使余 (使餘) 而暴妾使余 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
  • 寿余 (壽餘) 乃使魏壽餘偽以魏叛者 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
  • 余惧 (餘懼) 余懼不獲其利 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
  • 免余 (免餘) 公孫免餘請殺之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3