重じゅう言げん

noun

pleonasm; redundancy; tautology

Rhetorical term for using more words than necessary to express an idea, often involving semantic repetition. The example 馬から落馬する (fall off a horse from a horse) illustrates a classic pleonasm.

• 「馬うまから落らく馬ばする」は重じゅう言げんの典てん型けい的てきな例れいだ。

  "Fall off a horse from a horse" is a typical example of pleonasm.

• 「頭ず痛つうが痛いたい」という表ひょう現げんは重じゅう言げんにあたる。

  The expression "my headache hurts" is a pleonasm.

noun

kanji compound with repeated character

Only with reading じゅうげん

Specifically refers to a kanji compound where the same character appears twice, such as 堂堂. This sense is restricted to the reading じゅうげん.

• 「堂どう堂どう」は重じゅう言げんの一いっ種しゅで、同おなじ漢かん字じを重かさねた熟じゅく語ごだ。

  "堂堂" is a type of 重言, a compound where the same kanji is repeated.