First opened Thursday, December 19, 2019
余る
あまる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to be left over, to be in excess
Taken apart
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Written with 余
In a sentence
この仕事は私の力に余る。
This work is beyond me.
かわいさ余って憎さ百倍。
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.