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調子

ちょうし

condition, state of health

Mnemonic

The word for how a thing is running, tuned well or tuned badly. The same 調 as 調べる and 調査, and today the body it belongs to is running badly: ちょうし.

Worth knowing

状態 じょうたい is the state a thing is in, flatly. 調子 is how well it is going, and it is the word for how you feel.

Built from

investigate, tune
言 speech + 周 all the way round
child
A swaddled infant with its arms out, in three strokes.

Words sharing these kanji

to look up, to search investigation, inquiry child, kid appearance, state boy girl child, kid son prince chair woman, girl boy, young man

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