调门

調門
diàomén
  1. melody
  2. pitch or key (music)
  3. tone
  4. style
  5. point of view

CEDICT

  1. (music) melody; tone
  2. (music, colloquial) pitch; key
  3. melody; tone
  4. pitch; key
  5. style; point of view

Wiktionary

  1. 唱歌或说话时音调的高低。
  2. 论调。

重編國語辭典

music

Homographs

调门 tiáomén valve

Entry Composition

1 调 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 门 mén
  1. gate
  2. door
  3. gateway
  4. doorway
  5. opening
  6. valve
  7. switch
  8. way to do something
  9. knack
  10. family
  11. house
  12. (religious) sect
  13. school (of thought)
  14. class
  15. category
  16. phylum or division (taxonomy)
  17. classifier for large guns
  18. classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
  19. (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

classifiers: 扇, 個

Containing this entry

调门儿 diàoménr erhua variant of 调门 diàomén

Related entries

旋律 xuánlǜ melody
曲调 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

调子 diàozi
  1. tune
  2. melody
  3. tuning
  4. cadence
  5. intonation
  6. (speech) tone
调 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
汤姆把电视调大声。

Tom turned up the TV.

Source: Tatoeba

笔调 bǐdiào
  1. (of writing) tone
  2. style
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