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多余

duō yú

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 多餘

多余 (duō yú) means "superfluous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 多余 means

1. superfluous
2. unnecessary
3. surplus

The characters in 多余

• 多duōmany; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd
• 余yú(literary) I; me; variant of 余

Example sentences

• 还有多余的盐吗？
  Is there any salt left?
• 你有多余的钥匙吗？
  Nǐ yǒu duōyú de yàoshi ma?
  Do you have an extra key?
• 我们有多余的时间。
  Wǒmen yǒu duōyú de shíjiān.
  We have time to spare.
• 我们有多余的牙刷。
  We have extra toothbrushes.
• 事实证明了我们的担心是多余的。
  Shìshí zhèngmíng le wǒmen de dānxīn shì duōyú de.
  The facts proved that our worries were unnecessary.
• 把你句子中的这个词去掉，因为它是多余的。
  Bǎ nǐ jùzi zhōng de zhège cí qù diào, yīnwèi tā shì duōyú de.
  Omit this word in your sentence because it's not necessary.

Sounds the same

Read duō yú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 多于more than; greater than

Where 多余 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Haste, Urgency & Surprise (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 duō yú correctly.
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