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Mythic Mandarin

效 (xiào): meaning and stroke order

效 (xiào) means effect, efficacy, to imitate, variant of 效, to imitate (variant of 效).

效

Simplified
效
Traditional
效, 俲, 傚, 効
Pinyin
xiào

Stroke order of 效

效

  • xiào variant of 傚|效[xiao4]
  • xiào to imitate (variant of 效[xiao4])
  • xiào variant of 效[xiao4]
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 俲

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 效

  1. xiào
    • effect
    • efficacy
    • to imitate
  2. xiào Traditional 俲
    • variant of 傚|效[xiao4]
  3. xiào Traditional 傚
    • to imitate (variant of 效[xiao4])
  4. xiào Traditional 効
    • variant of 效[xiao4]

Radical and structure

效
Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 10 strokes · 交 on the left, 攵 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 效

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).