漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
冗: superfluous, uselessness
JLPT N14 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
冖 carries the meaning · 几 is drawn in
4 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ジョウjou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 冗談じょうだんjoke
- 冗長なじょうちょうなtedious, verbose, redundancy
- 冗舌じょうぜつtalkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Place a cover on it! Imagine a thin, elegant cloth being draped over a precious object to keep it safe from dust or prying eyes.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · rǒng
Same form: 冗 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 冗 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 冗 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin rǒng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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