Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
cover
Parts:
superfluous, uselessness
On:
ジョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1782 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 冗 【ジョウ】 waste, uselessness, redundance
  • 冗談 【ジョウダン】 joke, jest, funny story

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
rong3
Korean:
yong

Spanish

  • superfluo
  • sobrante
  • inutilidad
  • relajado
  • flojo

Portuguese

  • supérfluo
  • inútil

French

  • superflu
  • inutile
1416 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1746 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
625 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1122 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1080 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1614 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1722 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
468 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
163 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2470 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1250 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1716 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
306 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1566 Morohashi
1976 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
399 New Nelson (John Haig)
300 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
321 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1021 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3657 2001 Kanji
2i2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-2 SKIP code
3721.7 Four corner code
1-30-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5197 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
say, word
Kun:
い.うこと
On:
ゲンゴン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
83 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 言 【ゲン】 word, remark, statement
  • 言及 【ゲンキュウ】 reference, allusion
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 狂言 【キョウゲン】 kyogen, farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play, kabuki play, kabuki performance, make-believe, ruse, trick
  • 言語 【ゲンゴ】 language
  • 言下 【ゲンカ】 promptly
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 二言 【ニゴン】 double-dealing, double tongue, going back on what one has said, repeating oneself

Kun reading compounds

  • 言う 【いう】 to say, to utter, to declare, to name, to call, to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"), to make a noise
  • 言うまでもない 【いうまでもない】 goes without saying, needless to say, obvious
  • 言 【げん】 word, remark, statement
  • 言葉 【ことば】 language, dialect, word, phrase, expression, term, speech, (manner of) speaking, (use of) language, words, remark, statement, comment, learning to speak, language acquisition
  • 禍言 【まがごと】 ominous word, ill-omened word, misfortune
  • 二言 【ふたこと】 two words, repetition

Readings

Japanese names:
とき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
eon

Spanish

  • palabras
  • decir

Portuguese

  • Dizer
  • palavras

French

  • dire
392 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
118 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
274 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
279 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4309 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
43 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
85 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
439 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
66 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
66 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
203 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1653 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2440 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1233 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1698 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
341 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35205 Morohashi
1941 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5552 New Nelson (John Haig)
335 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
357 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
44 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
142 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-6 SKIP code
0060.1 Four corner code
1-24-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a00 Unicode hex code