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
- —平行調relative key
- —調節器regulator; adjuster; modulator; controller
- —調査書written investigation; report of an investigation; school record (on a student); transcript (of grades)
- —調馬索longeing rein; lungeing rein; rein used to guide horse in circles
- —調整剤adjustor; regulator; modifier; conditioning agent
- —調子物matter of chance; touch and go
- —調整池regulating reservoir; retention basin; balancing pond; stormwater management pond
- —調整中under repair; out of service; being adjusted
- —絶不調very bad condition; (in) terrible form; serious slump
- —雇調金employment adjustment subsidy; subsidy for employment adjustment; subsidy to help defray layoff costs
- —調布巻chōfu-maki (traditional Japanese sweet)
- —洞調律sinus rhythm
- —非調和anharmonic; non-harmonic; discordant
- —網階調halftone gradation
- —調整弁control valve; regulating valve; something that maintains equilibrium or balance
- —調節弁control valve
- —協調的cooperative; conciliatory
- —調達先supplier
- —燃調費(monthly) electricity (or gas) usage charge (calculated using the adjusted unit rate)
- —調香師perfumer