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.

Joan of Arc (ji) is going to have her first day of school the next day. During the night she sneaked into the space station's kitchen (Ø2) and found a pointed cap (亼) filled with sweets, which she starts eating immediately.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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).
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 Yu

Words with 余

in one's spare time / outside working hours / amateur (historian etc)
remnant / relic / residue / vestige / surplus / to remain / to leave surplus
surplus / profit
to leave some leeway / to allow for the unpredictable
college for people who attend after work
spare-time education / evening classes
annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)
evil elements who have escaped eradication
to fall short of the best but be better than the worst / can pass muster
to leave room to maneuver / to leave a margin for error
a hundred or more
to leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
surplus from donation (accountancy)
Xinyu, prefecture-level city in Jiangxi
Xinyu, prefecture-level city in Jiangxi
Cao Yuzhang (1924-1996), modern writer and publisher, author of Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History 上下五千年[Shang4 xia4 Wu3 Qian1 nian2]

Sentences with 余

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