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
- —調馬horse training or breaking
- —破調out of tune; (poetic) broken meter
- —調号key signature
- —調法convenient; useful; handy; helpful
- —調音articulation; tuning (a musical instrument)
- —調進preparation; supplying; procurement
- —調髪haircut; barbering
- —情調atmosphere; mood; sentiment
- —整調tuning; regulation (of a piano); stroke oar; stroke
- —高調high spirits
- —硬調high-contrast (photography); hard tone; bullish (market); firm
- —税調tax system research commission; tax system research council; select committee on the taxation system; tax commission
- —候調epistolary style using the auxiliary "sōrō" in place of "aru"
- —調琴playing the koto
- —完調one's best form
- —現調local procurement; local content; sourcing locally
- —臨調special council or commission
- —政調party policy research
- —階調gradation; gradient
- —調波harmonic (wave)