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
- —悪魔調伏exorcism; praying down evil spirits
- —演説口調oratorical tone
- —格調高雅refined; dignified; elegant; graceful; exquisite
- —不調法者clumsy person; bungler; person with no particular talents (in performing arts); nondrinker; nonsmoker
- —弁明口調apologetic (defensive) tone of voice
- —命令口調tone of command; authoritative tone; commanding tone
- —政調会長chairman of (party) policy bureau; policy chief
- —政策調査party policy research
- —調査方法examination method; method of investigation; search procedure
- —身上調査examine (investigate into) a person's history
- —身上調書personal information form; dossier on an individual
- —調査会社(private) investigation company; research agency
- —身元調査identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin)
- —協調関係cooperative relationship; partnership
- —基調講演keynote speech
- —母音調和vowel harmony
- —フゼア調Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)
- —シプレ調Chypre fragrance (family of scents including sage, lavender, and oak moss, used in perfumes)
- —調音器官articulatory organ (i.e. the tongue, teeth, lips, etc.)
- —身辺調査(personal) background check