余 (yú): meaning and stroke order
余 (yú) means extra, surplus, remaining, remainder after division, (following numerical value) or more.
余
- Simplified
- 余
- Traditional
- 餘, 余
- Pinyin
- yú
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Stroke order of 余
余
- Yú surname Yu
- yú (literary) I; me; variant of 餘|余[yu2]
- yú extra; surplus
- 7 strokes
- Traditional form: 餘
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Meaning of 余
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yú
Traditional 餘
- extra
- surplus
- remaining
- remainder after division
- (following numerical value) or more
- in excess of (some number)
- residue (math.)
- after
- I
- me
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Yú
- surname Yu
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yú
- (literary) I; me
- variant of 餘|余[yu2]
Radical and structure
- 余
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 余
- 其余 qí yú the rest; the others
- 年年有余 nián nián yǒu yú lit. (may you) have abundance year after year; (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).