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冗談 (じょうだん): a joke — Japanese vocabulary

冗談 is read じょうだん and means "a joke". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

冗談

Reading
じょうだん · joudan
Translation
a joke
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
じょうだんが

Example

彼は彼女の冗談が分からなかった。

かれはかのじょのじょうだんがわからなかった。

He didn't get her joke.

Kanji in this word

  • 冗 — Superfluous, Uselessness
  • 談 — talk, discuss

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