excess, remainder

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

余 sound component

  Sound component

  

I

Evolution

馀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
馀 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
馀 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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surplus, excess, remainder; variant of |[yú], remainder

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surname Yu

Most common words with 馀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Yu

扶馀

Fuyu county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin