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生效

shēng xiào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

生效 (shēng xiào) means "to take effect; to go into effect". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 生效 means

1. (of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative

The characters in 生效

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 效xiàoto imitate (variant of 效

Example sentences

• 一项新的法律生效了。
  A new law has come into existence.

Sounds the same

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

• 生肖one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支…
• 声效sound effect

Where 生效 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shēng–shèn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēng xiào correctly.
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