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| 调 | diào | to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody |
| 顺应 | shùn yìng | to comply; to conform to; in tune with; adapting to; to adjust to |
| 调音 | tiáo yīn | to tune (a musical instrument) |
| 奏乐 | zòu yuè | to perform music / to play a tune |
| 调谐 | tiáo xié | harmonious / to adjust / to tune (e.g. wireless receiver) / to bring into harmony |
| 填词 | tián cí | to compose a poem (to a given tune) |
| 异曲同工 | yì qǔ tóng gōng | different tunes played with equal skill (idiom) / different methods leading to the same result / different approach but equally satisfactory outcome |
| 改口 | gǎi kǒu | to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸[ba4 ba5] and 媽媽|妈妈[ma1 ma5]) |
| 定弦 | dìng xián | tuning (stringed instrument) / (fig.) to make up one's mind |
| 词牌 | cí pái | names of the tunes to which 詞|词[ci2] poems are composed |
| 老调重弹 | lǎo diào chóng tán | to play the same old tune (idiom); unoriginal |
| 改弦易辙 | gǎi xián yì zhé | change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction / to dance to a different tune |
| 弹词 | tán cí | ballad tune in southern dialects, usually to sanxian 三弦 or pipa 琵琶 accompaniment |
| 旧调重弹 | jiù diào chóng tán | replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff |
| 调律 | tiáo lǜ | to tune (e.g. piano) |
| 搭调 | dā diào | to match / in tune / reasonable |
| 跑调 | pǎo diào | to be off-key or out of tune (while singing) (colloquial) |
| 细调 | xì diào | to fine tune |
| 翻作 | fān zuò | to compose / to write words to a tune |
| 调准 | tiáo zhǔn | to adjust to the right value / to tune / to focus (a camera etc) / to set (the date, the time) to the correct value |
| 五音不全 | wǔ yīn bù quán | tone deaf / unable to sing in tune |
| 定音 | dìng yīn | to call the tune / to make the final decision |
| 降调 | jiàng diào | falling intonation (linguistics) / to lower the key of a tune / to demote |
| 白香词谱 | Bái xiāng cí pǔ | Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times |