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Mythic Mandarin

效率 (xiào lǜ): meaning and stroke order

效率 (xiào lǜ) means efficiency.

效率

Simplified
效率
Traditional
效率 (same form)
Pinyin
xiào lǜ

Stroke order of 效率

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

率

  • lǜ (bound form) ratio; rate; proportion
  • shuài to lead; to command
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 效率

  1. xiào lǜ
    • efficiency

Radicals of the characters

效
Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 10 strokes · 交 on the left, 攵 on the right
率
Radical 玄 (Kangxi radical 95) · 11 strokes

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.

Where you learn it

效率 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 5 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

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).