调 — Chinese character
调
diào
tune, melody, key; to transfer, to exchange
- Pinyin
- diào
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 讠 周
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 讠; sound component 周
- Traditional
- 調
Common words with 调
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 调查 (調查) | diào chá | investigation; inquiry |
| 强调 (強調) | qiáng diào | to emphasize (a statement); to stress |
| 调整 (調整) | tiáo zhěng | to adjust; to revise; to reorganize |
| 协调 (協調) | xié tiáo | to coordinate; to harmonize |
| 调节 (調節) | tiáo jié | to adjust; to regulate |
| 空调 (空調) | kōng tiáo | air conditioning; air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode) |
| 调研 (調研) | diào yán | to investigate and research; research |
| 调教 (調教) | tiáo jiào | to instruct; to teach |
| 调动 (調動) | diào dòng | to transfer; to maneuver (troops etc) |
| 调控 (調控) | tiáo kòng | to regulate; to control |
| 调解 (調解) | tiáo jiě | to mediate; to bring parties to an agreement |
| 民调 (民調) | mín diào | opinion poll |
English words written with 调
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.