调查調查 in English

Measure word

• 项 xiàng back of neck; item; thing; term (in a mathematical formula); sum (of money); classifier for principles, items, clauses... attested
• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested

Character breakdown

• 调調 diào to transfer
• 查 chá to research

Stroke order

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

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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.

• Small seal script
• 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

• 为了调查物价，成立了一个委员会。

  A committee was constituted to investigate prices.

• 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.

• 我们在调查事故发生的原因。

  We are looking into the cause of the accident.

• 最近的一项调查显示吸烟的人数减少了。

  A recent survey shows that the number of smokers is decreasing.

• 没有调查就没有发言权。

  No investigation, no right to speak.

• 警察调查事故的原因。

  The police are investigating the cause of the accident.

• 警方正在调查。

  The police are looking into the matter.

All example sentences with 调查