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])
• 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?