The kanji 冗: meaning, readings and stroke order
冗
- Meaning
- unnecessary, wordy
- On reading
- ジョウ jou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 冖 cover
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- thừa, rườm rà (nhũng)
- Japanese
- むだ。よけい。
- Korean
- 쓸데없다, 군더더기 (용)
- Chinese
- 多余、冗长
Readings, words and example sentences
ジョウ jou · on reading · less common
冗談
joke
冗談を 言って わらわせます。
He tells jokes and makes everyone laugh.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.