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其余

qí yú

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 其餘

其余 (qí yú) means "the rest". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 其余 means

1. the rest
2. the others
3. remaining
4. remainder
5. apart from them

The characters in 其余

• 其qíhis; her; its
• 余yú(literary) I; me; variant of 余

Example sentences

• 你留在这儿，其余的人去外面
  Nǐ liú zài zhèr, qíyú de rén qù wàimiàn
  You stay here. Everyone else go outside.
• 我养了三只狗，一只是雄的，其余两只是雌的。
  Wǒ yǎng le sān zhī gǒu, yī zhī shì xióng de, qíyú liǎng zhī shì cí de.
  I have three dogs. One is male and the other two are female.
• 他有三个女儿，一个结了婚，其余两个还没有。
  He has three daughters; one is married, but the others aren't.
• 我的神与我的信仰是唯一的真理，其余都是虚构。
  Wǒ de shén yǔ wǒ de xìnyǎng shì wéiyī de zhēnlǐ, qíyú dōu shì xūgòu.
  My God and my faith are the only true ones, and the others are just fiction.
• 我有五个儿子。其中两个是工程师，另一个是老师，其余的是学生。
  Wǒ yǒu wǔ gè érzi. qízhōng liǎng gè shì gōngchéngshī, lìngyī gè shì lǎoshī, qíyú de shì xuésheng.
  I have five sons. Two of them are engineers, another is a teacher and the others are students.
• 如果我们之间有1000步的距离，你只要跨出第1步，我就会朝着你的方向走其余的999步。
  Rúguǒ wǒmen zhījiān yǒu 1000 bù de jùlí, nǐ zhǐyào kuà chū dì 1 bù, wǒ jiù huì cháozhe nǐ de fāngxiàng zǒu qíyú de 999 bù.
  If there are 1000 steps between us, you only need to take one step, and I will take the other 999 to you.

Where 其余 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Businesses, Miracles & Enlightenment (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qí yú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.