调調 in English
- to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 調, the traditional character: 调 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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为了调查物价，成立了一个委员会。
A committee was constituted to investigate prices.
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他强调了城市生活方便的一面。
He stressed the convenient aspects of city life.
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他强调了教育的重要性。
He placed emphasis on the importance of education.
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他强调都市生活的便利方面。
He stressed the convenient aspects of city life.
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众口难调。
It is difficult to satisfy everyone.
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其实，书面语我搞得相当好，但是口语中，我经常会记不起来某个字的音调。
I'm actually relatively good at written language, but with spoken language I often can't remember the tone on some word.
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在Johnson的调查里，明确地证明了二手烟是很有害的。
It is clearly shown in Johnson's investigation that passive smoking is very harmful.
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大部分程序员讨厌调试，设置故障比纠正它们有意思多了。
Most developers hate debugging; it's more fun to create bugs than to correct them.