We study the spectrum and isospin-violating strong decays of charmed mesons with strangeness. The scalar
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and the axial-vector
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states are generated by coupled-channel dynamics based on the leading order chiral Lagrangian. The effect of chiral corrections is investigated. We show that taking into account large-
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relations implies a measurable signal for an exotic axial-vector state in the
ηD* invariant mass distribution. The hadronic decay widths of the scalar
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and the axial-vector
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are predicted to be 140 keV.