剩 — Chinese character
剩
shèng
leftovers, residue, remains
- Pinyin
- shèng
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 乘 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 乘
- Japanese
- 剩 as a kanji
Common words with 剩
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剩下 | shèng xià | to remain; to be left over |
| 剩余 (剩餘) | shèng yú | to remain; to be left over; what remains; what's left |
| 过剩 (過剩) | guò shèng | to be excessive; to be more than is required |
| 所剩无几 (所剩無幾) | suǒ shèng wú jǐ | there is not much left |
| 剩饭 (剩飯) | shèng fàn | leftover food |
| 剩菜 | shèng cài | leftovers (food) |
| 剩余价值 (剩餘價值) | shèng yú jià zhí | (economics) surplus value |
| 剩女 | shèng nǚ | (coll.) "leftover woman" – a woman who remains single beyond the typical marrying age |
| 残羹剩饭 (殘羹剩飯) | cán gēng shèng fàn | leftovers from a meal; fig. remnants handed down from others |
| 剩磁 | shèng cí | residual magnetism |
| 余剩 (餘剩) | yú shèng | (literary) to remain; to be left over; (literary) what remains; what's left |
| 剩钱 (剩錢) | shèng qián | to have money left; remaining money |
English words written with 剩
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.