余 · yú
I, my, me; surname; surplus
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
I, my, me; surname; surplus
- Mandarin
- yú
- Cantonese
- jyu4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 余 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 여
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4F59
- Radical
- 人 · 9
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 余
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
餘
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- yo · 以諸 反切 · #231
- Middle Chinese
- dzyae · 視遮 反切 · #789
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1947 · yo = 遇開三平魚以 · dzyae = 假開三平麻常
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yú
- kCantonese
- jyu4
- kDefinition
- I, my, me; surname; surplus
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 9.5
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+4F59 U+9918
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+4F59
- kTGH
- 2013:795
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yú,tú,xú,yù 10128.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yú 1408.170
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yú 446.020,446.030
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- yú(287)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- yú粵jyu4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 以諸 視遮
- Kangxi positions
- 0099.020
- Guangyun positions
- 067.40 169.01
- GSR references
- 0082a
- Cangjie
- OMD
- Four-corner
- 8090.4