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)
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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
- —変ホ長調E flat major
- —温度調節temperature control
- —空調設備air conditioner
- —現地調査field survey; field work (research); on-the-spot investigation
- —在庫調整inventory (stock) adjustment
- —調査報告report (of an investigation); investigation (investigative) report
- —追跡調査follow-up survey; tracing survey; contact tracing (of an infectious disease)
- —予定調和pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention
- —予備調査preliminary investigation
- —位相変調PM; phase modulation
- —異国情調exoticism
- —環境調査environmental research
- —季節調整seasonal adjustment
- —雇用調整employment adjustment; adjusting employment arrangements (staff numbers, overtime, etc.) to reflect changing business conditions
- —税務調査tax inquiry; tax enquiry; tax investigation
- —内部調査internal inspection
- —家具調度household furnishings
- —現地調達local procurement; local content; sourcing locally
- —体温調節thermoregulation (of the body)
- —素行調査probity check; background investigation