调 diào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 周 Zhou dynasty
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
调解
tiáojiě
to mediate
Characters in this word
解 jiě
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 角 — angle, corner
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 老师来调解。 Lǎoshī lái tiáojiě. The teacher comes to mediate.
- 请你调解一下。 Qǐng nǐ tiáojiě yí xià. Please help mediate this.
- 他们需要调解。 Tāmen xūyào tiáojiě. They need mediation.
Related words
- 调 diào tune; tone
- 调查 diàochá survey; investigation
- 空调 kōngtiáo air conditioner
- 强调 qiángdiào to emphasize
- 调 tiáo to adjust
- 调整 tiáozhěng to adjust; to change
- 单调 dāndiào boring; monotonous
- 调皮 tiáopí naughty; mischievous
- 调动 diàodòng to transfer; to mobilize
- 调节 tiáojié to adjust
- 解决 jiějué to solve
- 解开 jiěkāi to untie; to undo