| diào | to transfer/to move (troops or cadres)/to investigate/to enquire into/accent/view/argument/key (in music)/mode (music)/tune/tone/melody |
| tiáo | harmonize/reconcile/blend/suit well/provoke/incite |
| 调 | to transfer to move (troops or cadres) to investigate |
| 调三窝四 | to sow the seeds of discord everywhere (idiom) |
| 调令 | transfer order |
| 调价 | to raise or lower the price price adjustment |
| 调任 | to transfer to move to another post |
| 调休 | take off |
| 调低 | turn down; lower |
| 调侃 | to ridicule to tease to mock |
| 调值 | pitch of tones |
| 调停 | to reconcile to mediate to bring warring parties to agreement |
| 调停人 | make-peace; adjuster; mediator; intermediator; paraclete |
| 调停纠纷 | to adjust disorder |
| 调停者 | mediator intermediary go-between |
| 调像员 | a vision controller |
| 调入 | fold; repatriate; tunein; call in; tune in; call |
| 调兵山 | Mt Diaobingshan in Tieling Diaobingshan district of Tieling city 鐵嶺市|铁岭市, Liaoning |
| 调兵山市 | Diaobingshan district of Tieling city 鐵嶺市|铁岭市, Liaoning |
| 调兵遣将 | to move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army to send a team on a task |
| 调养 | to take care of (sb's health) to nurse |
| 调养身体 | to nurse one's body; to take care of oneself |