Japanese symbol for “wordy”
冗長
じょうちょう
Romaji: jouchou
tedious; verbose; wordy; lengthy
In Japanese, wordy is 冗長, read じょうちょう (jouchou).
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Meanings
- adj-na, n tedious; verbose; wordy; lengthy; longwinded; prolix
- adj-na, n redundancy
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “wordy”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 諄諄しい | くどくどしい kudokudoshii | wordy; verbose; prolix |
| 諄い | くどい kudoi | repetitious; long-winded; tedious |
| くだくだしい | くだくだしい kudakudashii | tedious; lengthy; wordy |
| 息の長い | いきのながい ikinonagai | long-winded; verbose; wordy |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冗談 | じょうだん joudan | joke; jest; funny story |
| 冗句 | じょうく jouku | redundant phrase |
| 冗漫 | じょうまん jouman | verbosity |
| 冗員 | じょういん jouin | supernumerary; superfluous staff; excess personnel |
| 冗官 | じょうかん joukan | supernumerary official |
| 成長 | せいちょう seichou | growth; development; growing up |
| 社長 | しゃちょう shachou | company president; manager; director |
| 会長 | かいちょう kaichou | president (of a society); chairman |
See also: Chinese symbol for “wordy”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.