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
- —上っ調子Popularflippant; frivolous; shallow
- —国勢調査Popular(national) census
- —実態調査Popularfact-finding investigation; investigation into actual conditions; fact-finding survey
- —体調不良Popularhealth problem; poor physical health; bad shape; feeling unwell
- —意識調査Popularattitude survey; opinion poll
- —資金調達Popularfundraising
- —調key; mode (in gagaku); time; tempo; rhythm; meter (of a poem); metre; style; form; mood; pattern; tax in kind (paid with locally produced goods; under the ritsuryō system)
- —哀調plaintive strains; mournful tone; sad melody
- —音調tune; tone; intonation; melody; rhythm; harmony
- —佳調good tune
- —画調tone of an image
- —格調tone (of speech, writing, etc.); style
- —曲調melody; tune
- —語調tone (of voice); parlance; style; intonation; accent
- —合調tuning
- —主調keynote; predominant element; main point
- —新調making (a new suit, dress, etc.); having (something) made; buying new; refurbishing; renovating; new tune; new melody; new composition
- —正調traditional tune
- —俗調popular music; vulgar music
- —調弦tuning (a stringed instrument)