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The Kanji Map

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Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1782 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 4

Meaning: superfluous, uselessness

Kunyomi:

Onyomi: ジョウ

Composition: 冖 几

冗

Radical

Radical: 冖

Reading: わかんむり

Meaning: cover

Strokes: 2

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Examples

Examples with audio

冗談(じょうだん)   joke

冗長な(じょうちょうな)   tedious, verbose, redundancy

Onyomi Examples

冗 (ジョウ) waste, uselessness, redundance

冗談 (ジョウダン) joke, jest, funny story

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