to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody
to harmonize / to reconcile / to blend / to suit well / to adjust / to regulate / to season (food) / to provoke / to incite

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to calm down and reconcile (调) all the people in the aorta's kitchen (ao2). To this end she climbs on an advertising column (讠) and dances with a hula hoop (周).

调 character breakdown

surname Zhou / Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC)
to make a circuit / to circle / circle / circumference / lap / cycle / complete / all / all over / thorough / to help financially

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a hula hoop. James II of England (zh) performs in front of the outhouse (ou1): he swings a hula hoop (周), juggles three mandarins (口) and balances a small heap of dirt (土) on his head. He cheated a little bit though, because he stapled the heap of dirt to his wig with a stapler (⺆).
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
week / weekly / variant of 周[zhou1]

Characters with 调 as component

调 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 调

a tune / a melody / accent (distinctive way of pronouncing a language) / tone (manner of expression) / elegance / refinement
tone / note / a tone (on a Chinese syllable) / CL:個|个[ge4]
demodulation / to demodulate
(musical) mode
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
evaporative air conditioner / evaporative cooler
to sow the seeds of discord everywhere (idiom)
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday / to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday
pitch of tones
mediator / intermediary / go-between
tonal language (e.g. Chinese or Vietnamese)
background check (abbr. for 背景調查|背景调查[bei4 jing3 diao4 cha2]) / to conduct a background check
old tune / fig. conservative opinion / the same old stuff

Sentences with 调

调 currently does not appear in any sentence.