調ちょう
Meanings
Noun
1. pitch; tone; key
2. time; tempo
Noun
Suffix
3. mood; tendency; style
Archaic
Noun
4. tax paid in kind (ritsuryo period); first a tax on rice fields and households, then on individuals
also 徴
Kanji used
tone
Pitch accent
ちょ
Top 8000
Used in vocabulary (128 in total)
tone (of voice); manner of talking
tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
physical condition; state of health
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
cooking; food preparation
emphasis; highlight; stress; stressed point
sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning
mixing; compounding; dispensing (e.g. prescription)
harmony; accord; reconciliation; agreement
training (animals); breaking (animals)
bad condition; not to work out (i.e. a deal); disagreement; break-off; disorder; slump
regulation; adjustment; control
monotony; monotone; dullness; monotone; monotonic
basic tone; underlying tone; trend; keynote
pace; step; cadence
in perfect form; going swimmingly
tone (of voice); parlance; style; intonation; accent
tuning (musical)
making (a new suit, dress, etc.); having (something) made; buying new; new tune; new melody; new composition
air conditioning
household items; furniture; furnishings; (arch.) bow and arrow
protocol; written evidence; record (investigation, interrogation, etc.); preliminary memo; charge sheet
change of tone; variation (music); irregularity; modulation (in radio)
favourable; favorable; promising; satisfactory; in good shape
art of cooking; cookery; cuisine
signature; signing; sealing
good (condition); going well; fine; smooth
color tone; colour tone
plan; scheme; intention; project; design
making up a prescription; dispensing medicine; preparing medicine
tone (of argument); tenor; drift
tone (of speech, writing, etc.); style
seasoning; flavoring; flavouring
tune; tone; intonation; melody; rhythm; harmony
atmosphere; mood; sentiment
change of key (during piece); modulation
Cabinet Information Research Office
inactive; slow; sluggish; slack; low tone; undertone
convenient; useful; handy; helpful
manufacture; preparation; execution (an order)
one's best form
plaintive strains; mournful tone; sad melody
gradation; gradient
exaggerated; dramatized
traditional tune
seven-and-five-syllable meter
sad sound; plaintive melody
keynote; predominant element; main point
firm (market); bullish; strong (sales, economy, etc.); steady; sound
commanding attitude; authoritative tone
writing style
out of tune; (poetic) broken meter
poetic style typical of Man'yōshū
polytonality; polytonalism
flavor of literary style; flavour of literary style
corvee; taxes in kind or service (ritsuryo system)
tone of an image
(in a) rough Tokyo dialect; (having a) crude mouth; vulgar language; crude speaking
five and seven-syllable meter
local procurement; local content; sourcing locally
chemical seasoning
haircut; barbering
revival or reactionary mood
style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho); style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo)
ōshiki mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
governor (device); speed regulator
popular music; vulgar music
party policy research
weak (market); bearish; soft (tone, focus) (photography)
mixing colors; mixing colours; tone
reexamination; reinvestigation
key signature
translationese; translatese; translatorese
banshiki mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
(being) free of chemical seasoning (esp. MSG)
harmonic (wave)
ichikotsu mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
calm condition; normal condition
taishiki mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
rising intonation; rising tone
falling intonation; falling tone
mixture; preparation
start-stop synchronization
Fougere fragrance (family of scents including coumarin, oak moss, lavender, and geranium oil, used in perfumes)
Chypre fragrance (family of scents including sage, lavender, and oak moss, used in perfumes)
unfavourable condition; adverse position
high-contrast (photography); hard tone; bullish (market); firm
chōfu-maki (traditional Japanese sweet)
playing the koto
tax system research commission; tax system research council; select committee on the taxation system; tax commission
desiccant; moisture absorbent