冗談

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
冗 談
じょう
Grade: S 		だん
Grade: 3
kan'on goon

Etymology

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By surface analysis, 冗 (jō, “superfluous”) +‎ 談 (dan, “talk”).

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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冗(じょう)談(だん) • (jōdan) 

  1. a joke
    冗談(じょうだん)でしょう
    jōdan deshō
    It's a joke, right?

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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