音调 音調
Stroke order
Show the animation 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
音
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
调
These are the forms of 調, the traditional character: 调 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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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
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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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把电视声音调大点儿。
Turn up the TV.