冗
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extraneous; redundant; superfluous; busy schedule
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 冖 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 冗
- Common rank
- #2,026
- Unicode
- U+5197
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
superfluous · Heisig RSH #318
crown + wind
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 冗
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冗长度 | (level of) redundancy | |
| 冗长辩论 | filibuster | |
| 冗长 | long and tedious; redundant; superfluous; supernumerary; verbose (of writing) | |
| 冗数 | redundant number | |
| 冗语 | verbosity; verbose speech | |
| 冗言 | pleonasm (linguistics) | |
| 冗员 | excess personnel; superfluous staff | |
| 冗词 | tautology; superfluous words | |
| 冗食 | eating without working | |
| 冗位 | redundant position | |
| 冗官 | redundant officials | |
| 冗务 | miscellaneous affairs | |
| 冗兵 | superfluous troops | |
| 冗费 | unnecessary expenses | |
| 冗笔 | superfluous words (in writing); superfluous strokes (in calligraphy) | |
| 冗散 | (literary) idle; unemployed; (literary) (of writing) leisurely and verbose | |
| 冗余 | redundancy; redundant | |
| 冗职 | redundant position | |
| 冗杂 | many and varied; confused | |
| 冗辞 | variant of 冗詞|冗词[rong3 ci2] |