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失效

shī xiào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

失效 (shī xiào) means "to fail; to lose effectiveness". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 失效 means

1. to fail
2. to lose effectiveness

The characters in 失效

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 效xiàoto imitate (variant of 效

Words starting with 失效

• 失效日期shī xiào rì qīexpiry date (of document)

Sounds the same

Read shī xiào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 失笑to laugh in spite of oneself; to be unable to help laughing; to break into laughter

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shī xiào correctly.
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