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).
surname Yu
variant of 餘|余[yu2], remainder

餘 character breakdown

surname Yu
(archaic) I / me / variant of 餘|余[yu2], surplus
to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bag of instant noodles.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) went camping in the space station's bathroom (Ø2). As foodstuffs he brought chewing gum (艮) and instant noodles (食), but he forgot to bring his gas stove, so in front of his tipi (亽) He is eating chewing gums all day.
to feed (a person or animal)
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).

Characters with 餘 as component

餘 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 餘

handling a butcher's cleaver with ease (idiom); to do sth skillfully and easily
after school / extracurricular
(out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
to save / savings
balance / cash surplus
to have room to save a situation / margin for error (idiom)
(of one's time) idle; unoccupied
hyperbolic cosecant, i.e. function cosech(x)
hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
cotangent (of angle), written cot θ or ctg θ
see 茶餘飯後|茶余饭后[cha2 yu2 fan4 hou4]
see 茶餘飯後|茶余饭后[cha2 yu2 fan4 hou4]
lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death
after that, any remaining energy (idiom from Analects); time for extracurricular activities
variant of 盈餘|盈余[ying2 yu2]

Sentences with 餘

餘 currently does not appear in any sentence.