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
- —ですます調style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")
- —パステル調pastel-colored; pastel-coloured; in pastel shades
- —燃料費調整fuel cost adjustment (system); adjustment of monthly electricity charges according to the import prices of raw materials (crude oil, LNG and coal)
- —満足度調査satisfaction survey
- —空気調節器pneumatic controller; air flow regulator
- —調理バサミkitchen scissors; cooking shears
- —気分変調症dysthymia; persistent depressive disorder; PDD
- —経済調査局Economic Research Service
- —憲法調査会Research Commission on the Constitution
- —公安調査局Public Security Investigation Bureau
- —満鉄調査部South Manchuria Railway Research Department
- —カーソル強調cursored emphasis
- —調子を整えるto put in tune
- —歩調を揃えるto keep step with
- —パルス幅変調pulse width modulation
- —イメージ調査image survey
- —市場調査機関market research organization; market research organisation
- —資金調達計画financing plan
- —信用調査会社credit research company
- —政治資金調達fundraising