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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)

化学調味料かがくちょうみりょう

chemical seasoning (esp. monosodium glutamate)

税制調査会ぜいせいちょうさかい

tax system research commission

高調子たかちょうし

high pitch

高調こうちょう

high spirits

硬調こうちょう

high-contrast (photography)

cooperativeness

credit check

color control

reactionary tendency

to warm up to

to flavor

to arrange a marriage

金を調えるかねをととのえる

to raise money

軍国調ぐんこくちょう

wartime atmosphere

調べて置くしらべておく

to examine beforehand

事実を調べるじじつをしらべる

to investigate the facts

候調そうろうちょう

epistolary style using the auxiliary "sōrō" in place of "aru"

税調ぜいちょう

tax system research commission

租庸調そようちょう

corvee

音調おんちょう

tune

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