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奏效

zòu xiào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

奏效 (zòu xiào) means "to show results; to be effective". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 奏效 means

1. to show results; to be effective

The characters in 奏效

• 奏zòuto play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old)
• 效xiàoto imitate (variant of 效

Example sentences

• 它不会奏效。
  It won't work.
• 那对他依然奏效。
  Nà duì tā yīrán zòuxiào.
  This still applies to him.
• 这条规则不是任何情况下都奏效的。
  Zhè tiáo guīzé bù shì rènhé qíngkuàng xià dōu zòuxiào de.
  This rule doesn't apply to every case.
• 医生们尽力控制汤姆的病情了但可惜无法奏效。
  Yīshēng men jìnlì kòngzhì Tāngmǔ de bìngqíng le dàn kěxī wúfǎ zòuxiào.
  The doctors did all they could to control Tom's disease but, sadly, to no avail.

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