冗 rǒng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 冖 — cover
- Made of
- 冖 cover 几 small table
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
冗长
rǒngcháng
lengthy and tedious; verbose
Characters in this word
长 cháng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 长 — long, lasting
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 报告内容冗长，却没有回答投资人最关心的风险问题。 Bàogào nèiróng rǒngcháng, què méiyǒu huídá tóuzīrén zuì guānxīn de fēngxiǎn wèntí. The report was lengthy and tedious, yet it did not answer the risk questions investors cared about most.
- 他的演讲十分冗长，许多听众都犯困了。 Tā de yǎnjiǎng shífēn rǒngcháng, xǔduō tīngzhòng dōu fànkùn le. His speech was extremely long-winded, and many in the audience started dozing off.
- 这篇文章太冗长了，我读了一半就放下了。 Zhè piān wénzhāng tài rǒngchángle, wǒ dúle yībàn jiù fàngxià le. This article is far too long-winded; I gave up halfway through.