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调查 (diào chá): meaning and stroke order

调查 (diào chá) means investigation, inquiry, to investigate, to survey, survey, (opinion) poll, 项个.

调查

Simplified
调查
Traditional
調查
Pinyin
diào chá

Stroke order of 调查

调

  • diào to transfer; to move (troops or cadres)
  • tiáo to harmonize; to reconcile
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 調

Stroke by stroke

查

  • Zhā surname Zha
  • chá to research; to check
  • zhā variant of 楂[zha1]
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 调查

  1. diào chá Traditional 調查
    • investigation
    • inquiry
    • to investigate
    • to survey
    • survey
    • (opinion) poll
    • CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

调
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 讠 on the left, 周 on the right
查
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 9 strokes · 木 on top, 旦 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

调查 in our stories

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  • 这时，一个穿着校服的中学生举起了手。她说她和同学花了两个周末，在早市门口做了一次调查。

    zhèshí yí gè chuān zhe xiàofú de zhōngxuéshēng jǔ qǐ le shǒu tā shuō tā hé tóngxué huā le liǎng gè zhōumò zài zǎoshì ménkǒu zuò le yí cì diàochá

    Then a secondary-school student in uniform raised her hand. She said she and her classmates had spent two weekends doing a survey at the market entrance.

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 调查

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).