冗 — kanji meaning “superfluous”
冗
superfluous, uselessness
- Meanings
- superfluous, uselessness
- On'yomi
- ジョウ (jou)
- Kun'yomi
- —
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1782 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 14
- Chinese reading
- rǒng — Chinese character page
Words with 冗
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冗談 | じょうだん joudan | joke; jest; funny story |
| 冗長 | じょうちょう jouchou | tedious; verbose; wordy |
| 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 |
| 冗言 | じょうげん jougen | chatter; useless words |
| 冗多 | じょうた jouta | superabundance |
| 冗談口 | じょうだんぐち joudanguchi | joke |
| 冗談事 | じょうだんごと joudangoto | joking matter |
| 冗長性 | じょうちょうせい jouchousei | redundancy |
| 冗長度 | じょうちょうど jouchoudo | redundancy (information theory) |
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