KanjiDB
Radical Index : : 冗

ジョウ
superfluous, uselessness
This kanji has 4 strokes: 2 strokes in the "wa-shaped crown" radical (わかんむり) and 2 other strokes
Sample Compounds (27):
1.

じょうだん

jest, joke
2.

じょうひ

unnecessary expense
3.

じょう

uselessness
4.

じょうひつ

worthless painting and writing
5.

じょういん

supernumerary, superfluous, useless workers
6.

じょうぶつ

redundancy, superfluity
7.

じょうかん

supernumerary official
8.

じょうぶん

redundancy
9.

じょうく

redundant phrase
10.

じょうまん

verbosity
11.

じょうげん

chatter, useless words
12.

じょうよう

unnecessary work, unnecessary expense
13.

じょうご

redundancy
14.

じょうぜつ

garrulity, loquacity, talkativeness
15.

じょうた

superabundance
16.
ぎる
じょうだんがすぎる

to carry a joke too far
17.
らす
じょうだんにまぎらす

to pass (something) off as a joke
18.
めかして
じょうだんめかして

jokingly, in the form of a joke
19.

じょうだんぎみ

being somewhat (half) joking, half seriously, half in jest, in a jocular vein
20.

じょうだんぐち

joke
21.

じょうだんこと

joking matter
22.

じょうだんぬき

seriously, joking aside
23.

じょうだんはんぶん

being somewhat (half) joking, half seriously, half in jest, in a jocular vein
24.

じょうちょう

tedious, verbose, prolix, redundancy
25.

じょうちょうけい

redundant system (string, line)
26.

じょうちょうせい

redundancy
27.

じょうちょうど

redundancy, relative redundancy (in information theory)

Kuten Code: 3073
EUC Code: bee9
Shift-JIS Code: 8f89
JIS Code: 3e69
Unicode: 5197
Radical Index: 14
Frequency Rank: 1782
Jouyou Grade: 8
DeRoo Code: 3657
Four Corner code: 3721.7
"New Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 1976
"Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 625
"New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 399
"Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide" Index: 163
"Kanji in Context" Index: 468
"Kanji Learners Dictionary" Index: 1250
"Essential Kanji" Index: 1122
"The Kanji Dictionary" Index Code: 2i2.1
"Kanji & Kana 2nd Edition" Index: 1614
Morohashi Index: 1566
Morohashi Volume.Page: 2.122
Gakken Index: 1416
"Remembering The Kanji" Index: 1746
"Japanese Names" Index: 300
Korean Reading: yong
Pinyin: rong3

Radical Index : : 冗

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