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冗长

rǒng cháng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 冗長

冗长 (rǒng cháng) means "long and tedious; redundant; superfluous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 冗长 means

1. long and tedious
2. redundant
3. superfluous
4. supernumerary
5. verbose (of writing)

The characters in 冗长

• 冗rǒngextraneous; redundant; superfluous
• 长chánglong; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte

Example sentences

• 这位老教授的讲座冗长而沉闷。
  Zhèwèi lǎo jiàoshòu de jiǎngzuò rǒngcháng ér chénmèn.
  The old professor's lectures are long-winded and ponderous.

Words starting with 冗长

• 冗长度rǒng cháng dù(level of) redundancy
• 冗长辩论rǒng cháng biàn lùnfilibuster

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