Chinese symbol for “verbose”
冗长
rǒng cháng
Traditional: 冗長
long and tedious; redundant; superfluous; supernumerary
The closest CC-CEDICT match for verbose is 冗长 (rǒng cháng), defined as: long and tedious; redundant; superfluous; supernumerary; verbose (of writing).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “verbose”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 詹 | zhān | (literary) verbose; (literary) to arrive, to reach |
| 冗赘 (冗贅) | rǒng zhuì | verbose |
| 贫腔 (貧腔) | pín qiāng | verbose; garrulous |
| 连篇累牍 (連篇累牘) | lián piān lěi dú | (of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom); verbose |
| 繁芜 (繁蕪) | fán wú | wordy; verbose |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冗长.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 增长 (增長) | zēng zhǎng | to grow; to increase |
| 长期 (長期) | cháng qī | long-term; for a protracted period |
| 部长 (部長) | bù zhǎng | head of a (government etc) department; section chief |
See also: Japanese symbol for “verbose”.
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.