Chinese symbol for “extraneous”
冗
rǒng
extraneous; redundant; superfluous; busy schedule
The closest CC-CEDICT match for extraneous is 冗 (rǒng), defined as: extraneous; redundant; superfluous; busy schedule.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冗.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冗长 (冗長) | rǒng cháng | long and tedious; redundant |
| 冗员 (冗員) | rǒng yuán | excess personnel; superfluous staff |
| 冗余 (冗餘) | rǒng yú | redundancy; redundant |
| 繁冗 | fán rǒng | variant of 烦冗 (fán rǒng) |
| 冗杂 (冗雜) | rǒng zá | many and varied; confused |
| 拨冗 (撥冗) | bō rǒng | to find time to do sth in the midst of pressing affairs |
See also: Japanese symbol for “extraneous”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.