有餘

See also: 有余

Chinese

		to have; there is; there are to have; there is; there are; to exist; to be	remainder
trad. (有餘)		有	餘
simp. (有余)		有	余

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yǒuyú

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˇ ㄩˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁵ jyu⁴
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): yu¹ yi²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): iu³ y²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iú-û

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yǒuyú
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˇ ㄩˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yǒuyú
  - Wade–Giles: yu³-yü²
  - Yale: yǒu-yú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeouyu
  - Palladius: ююй (jujuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ y³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jau⁵ jyu⁴
  - Yale: yáuh yùh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁵ jy⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁵ yu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯¹³ jyː²¹/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
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    有如
    有餘 / 有余
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: yu¹ yi²
  - Sinological IPA: /iu⁴⁴⁻³⁵ i¹¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: iu³ y² [Phonetic: iu² y²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: iû-ṳ́
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu⁴⁵³⁻¹³ y¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: iu³ y² [Phonetic: iu¹ y²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu³³²⁻⁵⁵ y²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iú-û
  - Tâi-lô: iú-û
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iwuu
  - IPA (Taipei): /iu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ u²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ u²³/

Verb

有餘

to have an abundance
年年有餘／年年有余 ― niánniányǒuyú ― Wish you have abundance every year (a Chinese New Year wishing phrase)

Adjective

有餘

odd; about; or so
- 群臣百有餘人皆絕去其冠纓而上火，卒盡懽而罷。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  群臣百有余人皆绝去其冠缨而上火，卒尽欢而罢。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: c. 77 B.C.E., 劉向 (Liu Xiang), 《說苑》 (Garden of Stories), chapter 6
  Qúnchén bǎi yǒuyú rén jiē jué qù qí guānyīng ér shànghuǒ, zú jìn huān ér bà. [Pinyin]
  After more than 100 ministers removed the cords which held their headpieces in place, all of the candles were relit. All of the king's subjects were happy, and that was the end of it.

Synonyms

有奇 (yǒujī)
有零 (yǒulíng)

Derived terms

心有餘而力不足 / 心有余而力不足 (xīn yǒuyú ér lì bùzú)
成事不足，敗事有餘 / 成事不足，败事有余 (chéngshì bùzú, bàishì yǒuyú)
比上不足，比下有餘 / 比上不足，比下有余 (bǐ shàng bùzú, bǐ xià yǒuyú)
綽綽有餘 / 绰绰有余 (chuòchuòyǒuyú)

References

東方孝義 (TŌHŌ Takayoshi) (1931) “有餘”, in 臺日新辭書 [New Taiwanese–Japanese dictionary] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: 臺灣警察協會, page 35
小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “有餘”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC