Wǒ yǎng le sān zhī gǒu, yì zhī shì xióng de, qíyú liǎng zhī shì cí de.
I have three dogs: one is male and the other two are female.
Sentence #1583363 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted
How 其余 is built
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其qíhis
甘sweet · gān
一one · yī
八eight · bā
Memory aidDrawn from a winnowing basket. That meaning moved to 箕 (jī), and 其 came to mean “its, that”.
余yúI; me
余 is a single shape of 7 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
How to write 其余
其 8 strokes · 余 7 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 其余 (qíyú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
其余 (qíyú) means “the rest” or “the others”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it qíyú: qí with a 2nd tone, then yú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 其余 is written 其餘. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qiyu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 其余 from the suggestions. Typing qiyu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
其余 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
其qí2nd tone, rising
