Illustration: During dinner at home, a parent ceremoniously presents another adult with an enormous empty mixing bowl and a tiny pair of chopsticks, as though this were their ordinary rice bowl. The real filled rice bowl remains plainly visible beside it.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

冗じょう談だん

joudan

joke

Example sentences

冗談じょうだんはもうたくさんだ。
No more of your jokes, please.
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冗談じょうだんが受うけたよ。
My joke went over very well.
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冗談じょうだんでしょう。
You must be kidding!
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Kanji in 冗談

冗superfluous; uselessnessOnジョウ
談discuss; talkOnダン

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