Kanji1 / 15
調 kanji
tune, tone, meter, key (music), writing style, prepare, exorcise, investigate, harmonize, mediate
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
チョウ
Kun readings
しらべるしらべととのうととのえる
Words with 調
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —調査役assistant (to section manager)
- —政調会policy research committee
- —調整値adjusted value; adjusted price
- —調度品furnishings; implements; equipment
- —万葉調poetic style typical of Man'yōshū
- —調査課investigation department
- —純正調just intonation; pure intonation
- —調子笛pitch pipe
- —六調子six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)
- —太食調taishiki mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
- —調光器dimmer; dimmer control
- —復調機demodulator
- —調心輪aligning ring
- —無調整unadjusted
- —調節卵regulation egg
- —下降調falling intonation; falling tone
- —上昇調rising intonation; rising tone
- —調整役coordinator; coordinating role
- —天明調style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho); style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo)
- —五七調five and seven-syllable meter