Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 余


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Meaning

in excess, ample, rest, remain

Pronunciation

YO
amari/ru/su

Explanation

Top: roof, below: variation of to show (a table/altar on which something is in excess.)

Mnemonic

What is remaining (= ) on the altar is in excess.

Radicals

in excess(A heap is still (on a variant) of altar [= to show], thus there in excess.)
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Vocabulary

余る あまる to remain, to be left over, to be in excess
余り あまり not very, not much, remainder, rest
余震 よしん aftershock
余分 よぶん extra, excess, surplus
余計 よけい too much, abundance, surplus, superfluity
余地 よち place, room, margin, scope
余所 よそ another place, somewhere else, strange parts
余所見 よそみ looking away, looking aside
余暇 よか leisure time, leisure, spare time

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