失調

しっちょう · shicchou · JLPT N1 · noun

harmony

🎻 失 (lose) + 調 (tune/harmony) = lose the tune: out of tune, lack of harmony

失 means lose and 調 means tune or balance. When a violin loses its tune, the strings no longer agree with each other, which is 失調.

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