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冗 means 'superfluous'
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Learn to joke around in Japanese and to say, “He was amused at my joke,” “I said so jokingly, but she got angry,” and “His joke eased the tension in the room.” Find out how to talk about excess verbiage, as with “This sentence is too wordy” and “I eliminated redundancies.” Discover terms for on-the-job uselessness and excess, as in “I’m swamped with unnecessary work.”
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 冗 is used 1 time, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 冗 is used 42 times, read 1 way.
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noun, 'no' adjective
jest; joke; funny story (see also: 笑談; じょうだん is sometimes written 笑談)(click the word to view an additional 4 forms, examples and links)
An additional 2 less common words include 冗 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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