效 xiào

1. xiào noun result; effect
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '效' n 1; Kroll 2015 '效' 4a, p. 503; Unihan '效'; XHZD '效' 2, p. 826)
2. xiào noun effectiveness
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Unihan '效')
3. xiào verb to imitate; to copy
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 摹仿 (Guoyu '效' v 1; Kroll 2015 '效' 1, p. 503; XHZD '效' 1, p. 826)
4. xiào verb to consecrate; to dedicate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 奉献 (Guoyu '效' v 2)
5. xiào verb to serve to; to produce a result
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '效' 4, p. 503; XHZD '效' 3, p. 826)
6. xiào verb to hand over
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '效' 2, p. 503)
7. xiào verb to do a person's best
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '效' 3, p. 503)
8. xiào verb to verify
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '效' 5, p. 503)
9. xiào verb to indict; to acuse
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '效' 6, p. 503)

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• 有效性 validity
• 温室效应(溫室效應) greenhouse effect
• 否有效 inefficient
• 仿效(仿傚) to copy; to imitate
• 显效(顯效) to show an effect; to produce an effect; a conspicuous effect
• 确定效应(確定效應) deterministic effect
• 词长效应(詞長效應) word length effect
• 行之有效 effective in practice
• 效益 benefit
• 五毛特效 laughable low-budget special effects
• 氧效应(氧效應) oxygen effect
• 效价(效價) potency; titer (measure of effective concentration in virology or chemical pathology, defined in terms of potency after dilution by titration); valence (perceived value in psychology)
• 多普勒效应(多普勒效應) the Doppler effect
• 上行下效(上行下傚) subordinates follow the example of their superiors
• 早期效应(早期效應) early effect
• 综效(綜效) synergy
• 时效(時效) effectiveness for a given period of time ; prescription
• 特效药(特效藥) effective medicine for a specific condition; highly effective medicine
• 生效 to take effect
• 效果 a result; an effect ; special effects
• 卡西米尔效应(卡西米爾效應) Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
• 效验(效驗) the desired effect
• 效命 to do one's utmost in battle despite limitations of one's own body
• 乙种促效剂(乙種促效劑) beta-2 agonist
• 光电效应(光電效應) photoelectric effect
• 加工效率 processing efficiency
• 后效(後效) after-effect
• 经济有效(經濟有效) cost-effective
• 有效期 period of validity; sell-by date
• 效率 efficiency
• 长效(長效) to be effective over an extended period
• 光影效 lighting effect
• 误入歧途效应(誤入歧途效應) garden path effect
• 效法 to imitate; to follow the example of
• 低效 inefficient; ineffective
• 投效 to throw oneself into a task
• 效果图(效果圖) rendering (visual representation of how things will turn out)
• 成效 effect; result
• 报效(報效) render service to repay kindness
• 实效(實效) actual effect; practical result; efficacy
• 壁效应(壁效應) wall effect
• 效价能(效價能) potency
• 奏效 effective ; stated by an official to a lord
• 高效能 highly efficient; effectivity
• 效应(效應) effect
• 东施效颦(東施效顰) Dong Shi imitates Xi Shi's frown; to mimick somebody's idiosyncrasies but make a fool of oneself
• 特效 a special effect; a specially good effect
• 有效期内(有效期內) within the period of validity; before the sell-by date
• 见效(見效) to have the intended effect
• 速效 quick results; fast-acting

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• 卷四百八十三 列傳第二百四十二 世家六 湖南周氏周行逢(子:保權 附:李觀象 張文表) 荆南高氏高保融(弟:保勗 子:繼沖 弟:保寅 附:孫光憲 梁延嗣 漳泉留氏留從效 陳氏陳洪進(子:文顯 文顥 文顗 文頊) Volume 483 Biographies 242: Hereditary Houses 6 - Hu and southern Zhou clans Zhou Xingfeng (son: Bao Quan, relative: Li Guanxiang, Zhang Wenbiao), Jing and southern Gao clans Gao Baorong (younger brother: Bao Xu, sons: Ji Chong, younger brother: Bao Yin, relative: Sun Guangxian, Liang Yansi, Zhang Quanliu remaining clan member nephew, Chen clan Chen Hongjin (sons: Wen Xian, Wen Hao, Wen Yi, Wen Xu) History of Song 宋史 — count: 30
• 卷一百八十九 志第一百四十二 兵三 Volume 189 Treatises 142: Military 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 16
• 卷三百十一 列傳第一百九十九 四川土司一 Volume 311 Biographies 199: Sichuan Tribal Headmen 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 16
• 卷二百十一 列傳第九十九 馬永 梁震 王效 周尚文 馬芳 何卿 沈希儀 石邦憲 Volume 211 Biographies 99: Ma Yong, Liang Zhen, Wang Xiao, Zhou Shangwen, Ma Fang, He Qing, Shen Xiyi, Shi Bangxian History of Ming 明史 — count: 14
• 卷七十五 眭兩夏侯京翼李傳 Volume 75: Sui, two Xiahous, Jing, Ji and Li Book of Han 漢書 — count: 14
• 卷二 魏書二 文帝紀 Volume 2: Book of Wei 2 - Annals of Emperor Wen Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 14
• 卷一百八十七 志第一百四十 兵一 Volume 187 Treatises 140: Military 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 13
• 卷二十四　魏三 Chapter 24: Wei III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 13
• 卷二百九十九 列傳第一百八十七 方伎 Volume 299 Biographies 187: Divination History of Ming 明史 — count: 13
• 卷一百三十九 列傳第八十九: 陸贄 Volume 139 Biographies 89: Lu Zhi Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 12

Collocations

• 效功 (效功) 分繭稱絲效功 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 7
• 效死 (效死) 比之義宜乎效死不立 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
• 效驾 (效駕) 效駕 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 4
• 效玺 (效璽) 效璽而請兵矣 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 五蠹第四十九 Chapter 49: Five Vermin — count: 3
• 效天地 (效天地) 謞而效天地 — Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露, 卷十 深察名號第三十五 實性第三十六 諸侯第三十七 五行對第三十八 第三十九 第四十　Scroll 10 — count: 3
• 欲效 (欲效) 今王公大人亦欲效人以尚賢使能爲政 — Mozi 墨子, 卷二 尚賢中 Book 2 - Exaltation of the Virtuous II — count: 3
• 效天 (效天) 以效天之生殖 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 效之子 (效之子) 自三百石以上皆效之子之 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說右下第三十五 Chapter 35: A Collection of Sayings VI — count: 2
• 来效 (來效) 四方来效 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 揚權第八 Chapter 8: Wielding Power — count: 2
• 群臣效 (群臣效) 使群臣效其智能 — Guanzi 管子, 明法解第六十七 Chapter 67: Explanation of Wise Edicts — count: 2