余

音読おんよみ:

訓読くんよみ: あま・あま

画数かくすう: 7

部首ぶしゅ: ひとやね(𠆢)

Meaning

Surplus / Extra / Remainder / Spare

Conjugation
Tap for 余る (be left over) Tap for 余す (leave unused)
  • 余裕よゆう — spare time / mental room
  • 余分よぶん — extra / excessive
  • 余計よけい — unnecessary / excessive
  • 余暇よか — leisure time
  • 余命よめい — remaining life span
  • 余震よしん — aftershock
  • 有余ゆうよ — a little more than / upwards of
  • 余るあまる — to be left over

余 depicts a roof (⺆) with a support beneath it, symbolizing what remains under shelter — the remainder or surplus. Over time, it came to express “extra” or “leftover” in both tangible and abstract contexts like time, energy, and resources.

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