excess, remainder

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

余 sound component

  Sound component

  

I

Evolution

餘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餘 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
餘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

surplus, excess, remainder; extra; surplus; remaining; remainder after division; (following numerical value) or more; in excess of (some number); residue (math.); after; I; me

() 

surname Yu

() 

variant of |[yú], remainder

Most common words with 餘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

其余

the rest

业余

in one's spare time

剩余

remainder

余地

margin

余额

surplus