多 余

duōyú

verbadjectiveHSK 7-9

“Superfluous” in Chinese is 多余 (duōyú).

Meaning

superfluous
unnecessary
surplus

Example

还有多余的盐吗？

Is it too salty?

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

duōHSK 16 strokesmany; much; more; a lot of yúHSK 47 strokesextra

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