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Etymology
Pictograph of a small shelter. Based on the original meaning "residence", now written as 舍. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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Originally a pictograph of a small shelter, 余 (yú) first meant "residence", a sense now written as 舍. Its use as a first-person pronoun in classical Chinese arose through phonetic loan. In modern Chinese, 余 is the simplified form of 餘, a character combining the food radical 食 (shí) with the phonetic 余. That character originally meant surplus food and later came to mean any excess or remainder. The simplification merges two historically separate words into one written form.
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我有多余的时间。
业余爱好让我快乐。
剩余的食物放在冰箱里。
他业余时间学习英语。
这本书多余的部分可以删掉。
余额不足，请充值。
除了工作，余下的时间我都用来休息。
在余下的旅程中，我们需要小心。
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