Chinese Character Wiki
效

xiào

result, effect

Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound.

Components
交 sound component

交  Sound component

jiāo

  

to cross

攵 meaning component

攵  Meaning component

pū

  

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Evolution

效 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
效 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
效 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
效 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
效 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

效  

xiào

result, effect; effectiveness; effect; efficacy; to imitate

效 (俲) 

xiào

variant of 傚|效[xiào]

效 (効) 

xiào

variant of 效[xiào]

Most common words with 效
Freq.
Word
Meaning

效果

result

有效

effective

效劳

to work for

无效

not valid

效率

efficiency

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

傚

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-[k]ˤraw-s

haewH

xiào

imitate, follow


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 47.7014% of movies

913th most common character in movies

551st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6548

Shuowen

“效，象也。从攴，交聲。”


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