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效果

xiào guǒ

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

效果 (xiào guǒ) means "effect; effectiveness (of a result)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 效果 means

1. result
2. effect
3. efficacy
4. (theater) sound or visual effects

The characters in 效果

• 效xiàoto imitate (variant of 效
• 果guǒfruit; result; resolute

Example sentences

• 效果不错。
  It works well.
• 效果让我爸爸满意。
  Xiàoguǒ ràng wǒ bàba mǎnyì.
  My father was happy with the result.
• 这些问题对我们毫无效果。
  Zhèxiē wèntí duì wǒmen háowú xiàoguǒ.
  These issues have no effect on us.
• 这个药没有有害的副作用效果。
  Zhège yào méiyǒu yǒuhài de fùzuòyòng xiàoguǒ.
  This medicine doesn't have any harmful side effects.
• 在澳大利亚的快乐协会，两百块钱可能达到效果。
  Zài àodàlìyà de kuàilè xiéhuì, liǎng bǎi kuài qián kěnéng dádào xiàoguǒ.
  At The Happiness Institute in Australia, a couple of hundred dollars may do the trick.
• 汤姆逐渐了解到，用又大又薄的铲子翻煎饼或马铃薯饼效果最好。
  Tom has come to know that a large, thin spatula works best for turning over pancakes or latkes.

Words starting with 效果

• 效果图xiào guǒ túrendering (visual representation of how things will turn out)

Words containing 效果

• 音响效果yīn xiǎng xiào guǒsound effects
• 毫无效果háo wú xiào guǒto no avail; achieving nothing; totally ineffective

Where 效果 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Problems & solutions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiào guǒ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.