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
- —調合mixing; blending (e.g. spices); compounding (e.g. a medicine); making up; dispensing (a prescription); preparation
- —調声tonal mark (e.g. in PinYin)
- —調製making (to order); preparation; manufacture
- —調度household items; furniture; furnishings; fixtures; supplies; bow and arrow
- —調薬preparing a prescription; compounding a medicine
- —調律tuning (an instrument); temperament
- —転調modulation; change of key
- —文調writing style
- —変調irregularity; abnormality; anomaly; change of tone; transposition; modulation
- —諧調harmonious melody; harmony; unity; euphony
- —移調transposition
- —楽調musical tone
- —再調reexamination; reinvestigation
- —調伏exorcism; putting a deadly curse on; cursing to death
- —調味seasoning; flavoring; flavouring
- —調練military drill; training
- —調色mixing colors; toning
- —軟調weak (market); bearish; soft (tone, focus) (photography)
- —声調tone (of voice); tone (e.g. in Chinese)
- —調略plan; scheme; intention; project; design