冗談

Japanese

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

Etymology

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

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Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) じょーだん [jòódáꜜǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [d͡ʑo̞ːdã̠ɴ]

Noun

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

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