効
効 — hyo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 본받을[效] 효
- Romanization
- hyo
- English
- efficacious, effectiveness; to toil, to serve in the army
- Mandarin
- xiào
- Japanese on'yomi
- コウ, キョウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- き.く ききめ なら.う
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 5
- Newspaper frequency
- #538 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Variant forms
- 效
- Radical
- 力 (19, 6 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 交(교)
- Unicode
- U+52B9
Parts that make up 効
How 効 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 効 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 交, 力.
Japanese words with 効
- 効果こうか effect; effectiveness; efficacy
- 有効ゆうこう valid; effective; yuko (judo)
- 効率こうりつ efficiency
- 無効むこう invalid; void; ineffective
- 効果的こうかてき effective; successful
- 実効じっこう practical effect; efficacy; efficiency
- 発効はっこう coming into effect
- 効率的こうりつてき efficient
- 時効じこう prescription; statute of limitations; limitation period
- 効力こうりょく effect; efficacy; validity
- 効用こうよう use; utility; effect
- 即効そっこう immediate effect; instant effect
Characters sharing the phonetic 交
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “교” in Korean.
Other hanja read “효”
Other hanja with radical 力
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