余 (餘) yú

1. yú noun extra / surplus / remainder
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity 数量
   Notes: (ABC 'yú' 余 N 1; Kroll 2015 '餘' 1; NCCED '余' 3; Unihan '餘')
2. yú suffix odd
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity 数量
   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. yú 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. yú verb to remain
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '餘' 2a; NCCED '余' 1)
5. yú noun the time after an event
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '余' 2)
6. yú noun the others / the rest
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '餘' 2b)
7. yú noun additional / complementary
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '餘' 3)

Contained in

• 其余 rest / remainder ; the others
• 业余(業餘) spare time ; amateur
• 多余(多餘) superfluous / unnecessary / surplus
• 剩余(剩餘) remainder / surplus ; to be left over
• 残余(殘餘) remnant / relic / residue / vestige
• 富余(富餘) to have a surplus
• 余党(餘黨) remnants
• 游刃有余(遊刃有餘) handling a butcher's cleaver with ease (/ to do something skillfully and easily
• 冗余(冗餘) redundant
• 其余 rest / remainder ; the others
• 不遗余力(不遺餘力) to spare no pains or effort / to do one's utmost
• 余晖(餘暉) twilight / afterglow
• 余烬(餘燼) an ember
• 余音绕梁(餘音繞梁) reverberates around the rafters / sonorous and resounding
• 腐余(腐餘) a foul odour
• 有余(有餘) with remainder / sopadhiśesa ; to have a fraction ; to have a something left over
• 劫后余生(劫後餘生) life left after a holocaust
• 余地(餘地) margin / leeway ; unused land outside a tomb
• 余年(餘年) one's remaining years
• 百余(百餘) a hundred or more
• 残余物(殘餘物) litter / trash
• 余力(餘力) energy left over
• 余怒(餘怒) residual anger
• 余光(餘光) (out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun
• 余波(餘波) aftermath / repercussions / fallout
• 余皇(餘皇) large warship ; Yuhuang
• 余韵(餘韻) pleasant lingering effect / memorable stylishness / haunting tune / aftertaste (of a good wine etc)
• 余音(餘音) lingering sound
• 余钱(餘錢) surplus money
• 余数(餘數) remainder
• 课余(課餘) after school / extracurricular
• 盈余(盈餘) surplus / profit
• 结余(結餘) balance / cash surplus
• 留余地(留餘地) to leave room to maneuver / to leave a margin for error
• 厨余(廚餘) kitchen waste / food waste (recycling)
• 余震(餘震) earthquake aftershock
• 转圜余地(轉圜餘地) to have room to save a situation / margin for error

Also contained in

无余 、 无余涅盘 、 有余涅盘 、 无余依涅盘 、 有余依涅盘 、 余杭 、 余姚 、 余靖 、 有余师说 、 便有余土 、 大余 、 夫余 、 余江 、 余庆

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