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JLPT N3 SL3 15 strokes Frequency: #87

Meanings

Tune, Tone, Meter, Key (music), Writing Style, Prepare, Exorcise, Investigate, Harmonize, Mediate

Radicals

言

Decomposition

⿰言周

Etymology

Pictophonetic: speech

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 15

Stroke Order

1 dot right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-to-top

6 corner bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 diagonal top-to-bottom

9 hook right-to-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 vertical right-to-left

12 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

13 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

14 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

15 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チョウ chou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ととの totono

しら shira

Words Using This Kanji

558 words total

Other (20 words)

playing the koto

mixture

to put in tune

E flat major

flavor of literary style

六段の調べろくだんのしらべ

rokudan (name of a koto composition)

パルス幅変調パルスはばへんちょう

pulse width modulation

modulator

temperature control

air conditioner

field survey

inventory (stock) adjustment

調理法ちょうりほう

method of cooking

調査報告ちょうさほうこく

report (of an investigation)

follow-up survey

inquiry commission

investigator

induction cooker

preliminary investigation

音調おんちょう

tune

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