冗
Stroke order
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Meaning (Japanese)
- むだ。余剰。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Origin of the character
会意。「宀」 + 「人」。「ひま」を意味する漢語｛冗｝を表す字。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
superfluous, uselessness
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- ジョウJHS
- Other languages
- 拼音rong3
- 한글yong
- Hán-ViệtNhũng
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 4 strokes
- Radical
- 冖(わかんむり)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+5197
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱冖几
Words using this kanji
- 冗談じょうだん相手を笑わせるための、ふざけた内容の話。 ふざけてする物事。 無駄話。joke, jest, funny story
- 冗じょうwaste, uselessness, redundance
- 冗員じょういん過剰となり無駄な人員。supernumerary, superfluous staff, excess personnel, useless staff
- 冗官じょうかんsupernumerary official
- 冗句じょうく不必要で余計な語句や文言。冗漫な語句や文言。 「ジョーク」の当て字。redundant phrase, joke
- 冗言じょうげん無駄口。無駄話。chatter, useless words
- 冗多じょうた言葉や文章が無駄に多いさま。superabundance
- 冗長じょうちょう無駄が多く長いこと。tedious, verbose, wordy, lengthy
- 冗費じょうひ無益の費用。unnecessary expense
- 冗筆じょうひつ無駄書き。 無駄が多い文書や筆遣い。worthless painting and writing
- 冗物じょうぶつredundancy, superfluity
- 冗文じょうぶん無駄に長い文章。無駄な文章。redundancy
- 冗漫じょうまん冗長で締まりがないこと。散漫なこと。verbosity
- 冗用じょうようunnecessary work, unnecessary expense
- 冗語じょうご無駄な言葉や話。 余計な言葉。verbiage, wordiness, tautology, blabber
- 冗談口じょうだんぐちjoke
- 冗談事じょうだんごとjoking matter
- 冗長性じょうちょうせいredundancy
- 冗長度じょうちょうどredundancy (information theory)
- 冗長系じょうちょうけいredundant system (string, line)
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
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Lookup codes
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