调 · diào
transfer, move, change; tune
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
transfer, move, change; tune
- Mandarin
- diào
- Cantonese
- diu6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8C03
- Radical
- 讠 · 149
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 调
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
調
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- diào
- kCantonese
- diu6
- kDefinition
- transfer, move, change; tune
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 149'.8
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8ABF
- kTGH
- 2013:2123
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- diào 0248.120 · tiáo 1140.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- diào 075.110 · tiáo 366.070
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- diào(390) tiáo(213)