調子

调子
diàozi
  1. tune
  2. melody
  3. tuning
  4. cadence
  5. intonation
  6. (speech) tone

CEDICT

  1. (derogatory) view; argument
  2. mood (of an article, speech, etc.)
  3. pitch (of sound or music)
  4. tone (of speaking)
  5. tune; melody
  6. view; argument

Wiktionary

  1. 音調。即音樂中表示所用音階高低的程度，稱為「調子」。如Ｃ大調、Ｄ大調等。
  2. 腔調。
  3. 說話時所持有的態度、語氣。
  4. 圖畫或攝影作品所表現的遠近、濃淡、明暗等程度。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 調 diào
  1. to transfer
  2. to move (troops or cadres)
  3. to investigate
  4. to enquire into
  5. accent
  6. view
  7. argument
  8. key (in music)
  9. mode (music)
  10. tune
  11. tone
  12. melody
2 子 zi noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair"

Containing this entry

舊調子 jiùdiàozi
  1. old tune
  2. fig. conservative opinion
  3. the same old stuff

Related entries

曲 qǔ
  1. tune
  2. song

classifier: 支

给我弹一曲肖邦。

Play Chopin for me.

Source: Tatoeba

曲調 qǔdiào
  1. tune
  2. melody
如果你听外语歌，觉得曲调好听，但不懂歌词，那你不能说你喜欢这首歌，只能说喜欢它的曲调。

If you listen to foreign language songs, feel tunes nice, but do not understand the lyrics, then you can not say you like this song, can only say that like the tune.

Source: Tatoeba

曲子 qǔzi
  1. poem for singing
  2. tune
  3. music

classifier: 支

这首曲子是大调。

This piece is in a major key.

Source: Tatoeba

調頭 diàotou
  1. tone (of voice)
  2. tune
腔 qiāng
  1. (bound form) cavity
  2. (bound form) speech; talk
  3. tune
  4. accent (in one's speech)
  5. (old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock
汤姆说话的法国腔很重。

Tom has a very strong French accent.

Source: Tatoeba

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