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in one's spare time / outside working hours / amateur (historian etc)
HSK 4
the rest / the others / remaining / remainder / apart from them
HSK 4
superfluous / unnecessary / surplus
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *余* | 余* | *余
extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me
HSK 7-9
remainder / surplus
HSK 7-9
balance (of an account, bill etc) / surplus / remainder
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *余* | 余* | *余
(literary) I; me / variant of 餘|余
HSK 7-9
margin / leeway
HSK 7-9
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
Yuyao, a county-level city in Ningbo City 寧波市|宁波市, Zhejiang
to cover all at one glance (idiom) / a panoramic view
lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death
(math.) cosine
remnant / leftover / tolerance (i.e. allowed error)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *余* | 余* | *余
surname Yu
hyperbolic cosecant, i.e. function cosech(x)
one's remaining years
Dayu county in Ganzhou 贛州|赣州, Jiangxi
redundancy / redundant
Yugan county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
surplus / profit
the remaining years of one's life / survival (after a disaster)
surplus grain
remainder (in division)
after school / extracurricular
unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom) / unable to do anything right / never make, but always mar
to save / savings
(out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun
ember
Buyeo (c. 200 BC–494 AD), ancient kingdom in what is now northeast China
remaining
residual heat; surplus heat; waste heat / (fig.) capacity of retirees to continue to work
Yuhang district of Hangzhou city 杭州市, Zhejiang
hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
pleasant lingering effect / memorable stylishness / haunting tune / aftertaste (of a good wine etc)
twilight / afterglow
to have lingering fears / trepidation remaining after a trauma (idiom)
balance / cash surplus
(idiom) to be a survivor of a calamity
(idiom) more than enough
in surplus
ample / surplus
reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
to leave some leeway / to allow for the unpredictable
neither the best nor the worst; not too bad; better than some
handling a butcher's cleaver with ease (idiom); to do sth skillfully and easily
remainder / fractional part (after the decimal point) / unfinished
surplus money
(idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment
energy left over (to do sth else)
surplus and shortfall
earthquake aftershock
remainder; balance
remnants (of a defeated clique) / rump
ample / plentiful / affluent / relaxed / comfortable circumstances
richly provided for / having enough and to spare
lingering fear
lit. spare valor for sale (idiom); fig. after former successes, still ready for more work / not resting on one's laurels
aftermath / repercussions / fallout
crumbs from the table of one's master / castoffs / bits of rubbish / idle talk / casual remarks
cotangent (of angle), written cot θ or ctg θ
complementary angle (additional angle adding to 90 degrees)
to have an abundance
variant of 盈餘|盈余
lit. (may you) have abundance year after year / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)
(of one's time) idle; unoccupied
remainder term (math.) / remainder / residue
superfluous
residual anger
Pu'yo, Korean Buyeo (c. 200 BC-494 AD), ancient kingdom in northeast frontier region of China
complement of a set S (math.) / the set of all x not in set S
lingering sound
cosecant (of angle), written cosec θ or csc θ
Chinese remainder theorem (math.)
Yuhang district of Hangzhou city 杭州市, Zhejiang
Dayu county in Ganzhou 贛州|赣州, Jiangxi
The will is there, but not the strength (idiom, from Confucian Analects). / I really want to do it, but don't have the resources. / The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
seven heavenly bodies and four imaginary stars (in astrology and feng shui)
litter / trash
congruence (math.) / equation for residue modulo some number
to leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
the remaining people
(economics) surplus value
college for people who attend after work
room to maneuver; leeway; latitude
Yuqing, a county in Zunyi City 遵義市|遵义市, Guizhou
kitchen waste / food waste (recycling)
emperor's carriage
the Remainder Theorem
congruent (math.) / having same residue modulo some number
surplus from donation (accountancy)
hobbyist; amateur
spare-time education / evening classes
residual contamination
a hundred or more

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