surname Yu
(archaic) I / me / variant of 餘|余[yu2], surplus
extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 余车 means "emperor's carriage", and I'll thus represent 余 with a sedan chair. In the space station's kitchen (Ø2), Yu the Great (yu) finally has the chance to feel like an emperor. In zero gravity she doesn't need anyone to carry the sedan chair (余) she's sitting on. She set up two sewage pipes (朩) right opposite of each other, so as soon as she shoots out of one she enters the other and is redirected to the first one. In this way she can ride her sedan chair in an infinite loop. An emperor always wears a headpiece, so she puts on a pointed cap (亼).

余 character breakdown

variant of 集[ji2]

= + : This one looks like a pointed cap.
one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "pin"), an ancient Korean writing system

= + : Let's say this is a sewage pipe which sticks out of the floor. The horizontal line is the floor level, and 小 below it represents the stuff in the earth.

Characters with 余 as component

extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 余车 means "emperor's carriage", and I'll thus represent 余 with a sedan chair. In the space station's kitchen (Ø2), Yu the Great (yu) finally has the chance to feel like an emperor. In zero gravity she doesn't need anyone to carry the sedan chair (余) she's sitting on. She set up two sewage pipes (朩) right opposite of each other, so as soon as she shoots out of one she enters the other and is redirected to the first one. In this way she can ride her sedan chair in an infinite loop. An emperor always wears a headpiece, so she puts on a pointed cap (亼).
to get rid of / to remove / to exclude / to eliminate / to wipe out / to divide / except / not including

= + : The pope is having Chantal Chicken drag him around in his sedan chair. Chantal Chicken is really annoyed by this and plans to get rid of him just as they pass the entrance of the space station.
way / route / road

= + : Just inside the entrance of the space station (Ø2), Tommy Turtle (tu) is contemplating two different ways (途) to get back to earth. There is a sedan chair (余) but no one to carry it on the one hand, and there is a pair of worn gladiator sandals (辶) on the other hand.
inclined / slanting / oblique / tilting

= + : Marie Curie (xi) has the matador (斗) pull her sedan chair (余) through the elevator's kitchen (e2). Since there is no-one at the rear end of the sedan chair, the end just drags over the ground and the sedan chair is very slanted (斜), just like a slanting tower.
surname Xu

= + : After a hard day at work Xu Xian (xu) likes to be carried around in his sedan chair (余) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). He has his personnel wear black sneakers (彳) and has them walk really slowly (徐) so that there are no bumps whatsoever.
slowly / gently

= + : After a hard day at work Xu Xian (xu) likes to be carried around in his sedan chair (余) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). He has his personnel wear black sneakers (彳) and has them walk really slowly (徐) so that there are no bumps whatsoever.
abbr. for Syria 敘利亞|叙利亚[Xu4 li4 ya4]

= + : From time to time Xu Xian (xu) gets very lonely on the space station. In times like these he sits in his sedan chair (余) in the bathroom (Ø4) and chats (叙) with a boxing glove (又) on which he drew a face.
variant of 敘|叙[xu4]

= + : From time to time Xu Xian (xu) gets very lonely on the space station. In times like these he sits in his sedan chair (余) in the bathroom (Ø4) and chats (叙) with a boxing glove (又) on which he drew a face.
to narrate / to chat

= + : From time to time Xu Xian (xu) gets very lonely on the space station. In times like these he sits in his sedan chair (余) in the bathroom (Ø4) and chats (叙) with a boxing glove (又) on which he drew a face.
variant of 途[tu2]

= + : Someone smeared (涂) a graffiti on Tommy Turtle's (tu) sedan chair (余) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). Tommy Turtle tries to clean it using a bottle of water (氵).
surname Tu

= + : Someone smeared (涂) a graffiti on Tommy Turtle's (tu) sedan chair (余) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). Tommy Turtle tries to clean it using a bottle of water (氵).
to apply (paint etc) / to smear / to daub / to blot out / to scribble / to scrawl / (literary) mud / street

= + : Someone smeared (涂) a graffiti on Tommy Turtle's (tu) sedan chair (余) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). Tommy Turtle tries to clean it using a bottle of water (氵).
surname Yu

Words with 余

the rest / the others / remaining / remainder / apart from them
remainder / surplus
to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
to cover all at one glance (idiom) / a panoramic view
redundancy / redundant
alternative term for fourth lunar month
congruence (math.) / equation for residue modulo some number
congruence class (of integers modulo n)
seven heavenly bodies and four imaginary stars (in astrology and feng shui)
(idiom) to be a survivor of a calamity
remnants after a disaster / aftermath
congruent (math.) / having same residue modulo some number
emperor's carriage

Sentences with 余

余 currently does not appear in any sentence.