Chinese symbol for “redundancy”
冗余
rǒng yú
Traditional: 冗餘
redundancy; redundant
The closest CC-CEDICT match for redundancy is 冗余 (rǒng yú), defined as: redundancy; redundant.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “redundancy”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重叠 (重疊) | chóng dié | to overlap; to superimpose |
| 冗长度 (冗長度) | rǒng cháng dù | (level of) redundancy |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冗余.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冗长 (冗長) | rǒng cháng | long and tedious; redundant |
| 冗员 (冗員) | rǒng yuán | excess personnel; superfluous staff |
| 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 |
| 其余 (其餘) | qí yú | the rest; the others |
| 余额 (餘額) | yú é | balance (of an account, bill etc); surplus |
| 业余 (業餘) | yè yú | in one's spare time; outside working hours |
See also: Japanese symbol for “redundancy”.
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.