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調

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)

実態調査じったいちょうさ

fact-finding investigation

上り調子のぼりちょうし

rise

公安調査庁こうあんちょうさちょう

Public Security Intelligence Agency

破調はちょう

out of tune

戸籍調べこせきしらべ

census-taking

お調子者おちょうしもの

person who gets easily elated (when praised, etc.)

受胎調節じゅたいちょうせつ

birth control

実情調査委員会じつじょうちょうさいいんかい

fact-finding committee

key signature

convenient

animal trainer

belt pulley

articulation

an arbitration committee

調理器具ちょうりきぐ

cookware

調子外れちょうしはずれ

discord

調べものしらべもの

matter to be checked or investigated

調剤師ちょうざいし

prescriptionist

調停裁判ちょうていさいばん

court arbitration

音調おんちょう

tune

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