In Phys. Rev. A 61, 052306 (2000), Coffman, Kundu and Wootters introduced the residual entanglement for three qubits. In this paper, we present the entanglement measure τ (ψ) for even n qubits; for odd n qubits, we propose the residual entanglement τ (i) (ψ) with respect to qubit i and the odd n-tangle R(ψ) by averaging the residual entanglement with respect to each qubit. In this paper, we show that these measures are LUinvariant, entanglement monotones, invariant under permutations of the qubits, and multiplicative in some cases.