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生效

shēng xiào

HSK 6 2-character word

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