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HSK
to adjust / adjustment / revision / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
investigation / inquiry / to investigate / to survey / survey / (opinion) poll / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
to adjust / to regulate / to harmonize / to reconcile (accountancy etc)
HSK 5
to ridicule / to tease / to mock / idle talk / chitchat
HSK 7-9
naughty / mischievous / unruly
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *調* | 調* | *調
to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *調* | 調* | *調
to harmonize / to reconcile / to blend / to suit well / to adjust / to regulate / to season (food) / to provoke / to incite
HSK 3
to mediate / to bring parties to an agreement
HSK 5
to transfer / to maneuver (troops etc) / movement of personnel / to mobilize / to bring into play
HSK 5
to investigate and research / research / investigation
HSK 6
to summon / to muster / to assemble
to mix drinks / cocktail
to dispatch / to assign / a dispatch
(music) tonality / (of an actor, company, magazine etc) style; image; tone; voice; character
condiment / seasoning / flavoring
HSK 7-9
naughty; mischievous; to act up
gear shift
to modulate; modulation
to flirt
to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities
to tease / to poke fun at
seasoning / condiment / flavoring / dressing / essences
to allocate / to deploy
to blend (colors, herbs); to mix
to transfer a dossier / to consult a dossier
to regulate / to control
HSK 7-9
to instruct / to teach / to train / to raise (livestock)
to dispatch (vehicles, staff etc) / to schedule / to manage / dispatcher / scheduler
HSK 7-9
to debug / to adjust components during testing / debugging
HSK 7-9
spoon; (esp.) Chinese soup spoon (often ceramic)
wage adjustment / to raise or lower wages
seasoning / flavoring
to transfer (for a specific purpose) / to allocate / (computing) to invoke (a command, an application etc)
to blend colors / to mix colors
questionnaire / inventory list / CL: 張|张,
to reconcile / to mediate / to bring warring parties to agreement / to arbitrate
investigator
investigator
to obtain (information from an archive etc)
to bring in / to call in / to transfer (a person, data) / (computing) to call / to load (a subroutine etc)
to lower; to reduce; to cut (prices, interest rates etc)
tone mark on a Chinese syllable (i.e. accents on ā á ǎ à) / (music) key signature
gravy
to take care of (sb's health) / to nurse
flavoring agent
to transfer an employee to another post; reassignment / also pr. [tiao2 gang3]
to hold forth / to quibble
dressing / sauce
regulator
to reassign sb to a different job / to turn around / to change direction / to make a U turn
modem
to investigate / investigation
to be transferred to another post / to post away
bartender
seasoning / condiment / flavoring / dressing / essences
to reassign a cadre / to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre
to tune (e.g. piano)
to concoct by mixing ingredients; to prepare according to a recipe; to make (a salad, a cocktail, cosmetics etc)
to look after and train (animals)
research workers / survey and research workers
to incite trouble between people (idiom)
investigating team
to nurse one's health / to recuperate / to take care of / to look after / to discipline / to educate / to train / to prepare food / (dialect) to make fun of / (medicine) to opsonize
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday / to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday
tune / melody / tuning / cadence / intonation / (speech) tone
(railroad) classification yard; marshalling yard; shunting yard
to exchange / to change places / to swap
to access (a document) / to consult
to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom) / to lure an enemy away from his territory
dimmer
to send on assignment / to deploy (troops)
to steal sb's valuable item and substitute a similar-looking but worthless item; to sell a fake for the genuine article; to palm off
phase modulation
palette
to tune (a musical instrument)
to blend (cooking) / to mix evenly
harmonious / to mediate; to reconcile / mediation / to compromise / to mix; to blend / blended / to season / seasoning / to placate
harmonic analysis (math.)
to transfer / to move / to shift
(literary) to nurse to health; to recuperate
palette
harmonic mean
to requisition / to dispatch
to adapt (to an environment etc) / to make sth suitable / adaptation / adjustment / adaptive
to relieve a garrison
pitch of tones
(cocktail) shaker
tone (of voice) / tune
to train / to care for and educate
amplitude modulation (AM) / size of an adjustment
melody / pitch or key (music) / tone / style / point of view
valve
to harmonize / to match
results (of an investigation, poll)
to transfer / to move to another post
mediator / intermediary / go-between
to adjust; to redistribute (resources etc) / (fig.) (of an activity) to provide variety in one's daily life; to serve as a change of pace / (of a pharmacist) to fill a prescription
to promote
to adjust upward / to upgrade / (price) hike
to tease / to make fun of / to provoke / to stir up (trouble)

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