Components
じちょう is an exact match with one form of the following word:
自嘲
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Reading : じちょう   
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 5 (among the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 81,976 which gives a rank of 9,372
自嘲 is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 35,000 (about 16,000,000 results)
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 41 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
• This form is used as an example of an official Joyo kanji reading
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Example sentences:
そんな
ふう
じちょう
自嘲
しなくても

You don't need to mock yourself like that.
おな
じょせい
女性
しょくいん
職員
えが
いた
スケッチ
なかくしゃっと
まる
めて
じちょう
自嘲
きみ
気味
わら
った

Crushing a sketch of a female worker in the same section in his hand, he laughed self-deprecatingly.
じちょう
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 195,000 (about 300,000 results)
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 41 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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ジ   シ   みずか self   
チョウ   あざけ to make fun of, to ridicule, to scorn   
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チョウ   あさ morning   
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ガツ   ゲツ   つき month; moon   
ten times earlier
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ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
stick   
ソウ   サッ   early; fast   はや early   はやまる be hasty   はやめる to expedite, to hasten   
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ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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