冗談

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Japanese

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

Etymology

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By surface analysis, (, superfluous) +‎ (dan, talk).

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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(じょう)(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