Hanja Analyzer
冗

冗 — yong

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
한산할/번잡할[宂] 용
Romanization
yong
English
excessive; superfluous
Mandarin
rǒng
Japanese on'yomi
ジョウ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,782 of 2,500
Strokes
4
Radical
冖 (14, 2 residual)
Phonetic component
几
Unicode
U+5197

Parts that make up 冗

  • 冖 덮을 멱 덮어씌운 보자기덮는 일
  • 几 안석 궤sound 기대는 낮은 상상과 받치는 것

How 冗 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 冗 as a ideographic compound involving 宀, 儿.

Japanese words with 冗

  • 冗談じょうだん joke; jest; funny story
  • 冗じょう waste; uselessness; redundance
  • 冗員じょういん supernumerary; superfluous staff; excess personnel
  • 冗官じょうかん supernumerary official
  • 冗句じょうく redundant phrase; joke
  • 冗言じょうげん chatter; useless words
  • 冗多じょうた superabundance
  • 冗長じょうちょう tedious; verbose; wordy
  • 冗費じょうひ unnecessary expense
  • 冗筆じょうひつ worthless painting and writing
  • 冗物じょうぶつ redundancy; superfluity
  • 冗文じょうぶん redundancy

Characters sharing the phonetic 几

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

丌 凥 宂 肌 飢 鳧 鳬 麂

Other hanja read “용”

俑 傛 傭 勇 埇 墉 宂 容 嵱 庸 慂 慵 憃 榕 槦 涌 湧 溶 熔 瑢 用 甬 硧 聳 舂 茸 蓉 蛹 踊 踴 鄘 鎔 鏞 鱅

Other hanja with radical 冖

冖 冘 写 冝 冞 冟 冠 冡 冢 冣 冤 冥 冨 冩 冪

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