馀

See also: 余, and 餘

馀 U+9980, 馀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9980 ← 饿 [U+997F] CJK Unified Ideographs 馁 → [U+9981]

Translingual

Traditional	餘
Shinjitai	余
Simplified	余/馀

Han character

馀 (Kangxi radical 184, 饣+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓女人一木 (NVOMD), four-corner 2879₄, composition ⿰饣余)

Related characters

• 餘 (Orthodox traditional form)
• 余 (Simplified form of 餘, also a shinjitai form)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1427, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 7, page 4456, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9980

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 餘 (食 → 饣).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 馀 – see 餘 (“to remain; to have left; time after an event; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 餘).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Usage notes

In simplified Chinese, 馀 is a non-standard form of 餘／余 only used as a surname or when it is desirable to distinguish 餘／余 from 余.