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见效

jiàn xiào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 見效

见效 (jiàn xiào) means "to have the desired effect". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 见效 means

1. to produce the intended effect; to achieve the desired result

The characters in 见效

• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
• 效xiàoto imitate (variant of 效

Example sentences

• 不怎么见效。
  It doesn't work particularly well.
• 工程要怎么见效？
  Gōngchéng yào zěnme jiànxiào?
  How will the project work?
• 工程要怎幺见效？
  How will the project work?

Sounds the same

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

• 见笑to mock; to be ridiculed; to incur ridicule through one's poor performance (humble)

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