(shèng) - to be left over, to remain, to have as surplus in Mandarin
shèngTraditional: 剩
Translation
to be left over, to remain, to have as surplus
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound combining 刂 (dāo, knife) with 乘 (chéng, phonetic), suggesting what is cut off and left behind.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 刂 (dāo, knife) + 乘 (chéng, phonetic)
Stroke order
剩
Examples
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There is only one piece of cake left on the table.
,。
We do not have much time left, only half an hour remains.
,。
We have spent almost all the money, not much is left.
菜。
Let us leave these dishes and eat them tomorrow.
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There are only the last five minutes of the match left.
剩 (shèng) means to be left over or to remain after something has been used or removed. It commonly appears with 下 as 剩下 to mark a remainder.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 剩.
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