效

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See also: 効 and 傚
效 U+6548, 效
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6548
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 敉 →

Translingual

Stroke order
10 strokes

Han character

效 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜大人大 (YKOK), four-corner 08440, composition ⿰交攵)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 470, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13186
  • Dae Jaweon: page 820, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1457, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6548

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 效

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (交) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
烄 *keːws, *kreːwʔ
礮 *pʰreːws
交 *kreːw
郊 *kreːw
茭 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
蛟 *kreːw
鮫 *kreːw
鵁 *kreːw
咬 *kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
鉸 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
佼 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
詨 *kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
絞 *kreːwʔ
狡 *kreːwʔ
姣 *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
筊 *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
校 *kreːws, *ɡreːws
珓 *kreːws
跤 *kʰreːw
頝 *kʰreːw
骹 *kʰraːw
齩 *ŋɡreːwʔ
洨 *ɡreːw
胶 *ɡreːw
效 *ɡreːws
効 *ɡreːws
傚 *ɡreːws
皎 *keːwʔ
恔 *keːwʔ
晈 *keːwʔ
窔 *qeːws
駮 *pqreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡreːws) : phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw) + semantic 攵 (“to strike; action”)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 效
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡敎切
Baxter haewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦaɨwH/
Li
Rong 		/ɣauH/
Wang
Li 		/ɣauH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		haau6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 效
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hæwH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-ˁraw-s/
English imitate, follow

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 效
Reading # 1/1
No. 6329
Phonetic
component 		交
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		效
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡreːws/

Definitions

效

  1. to devote
  2. result; effect
  3. effectiveness

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

効

Kyūjitai

效

Kanji

效

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 効)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō)
  • Kun: きく (kiku, 效く)、ならう (narau, 效う)、いたす (itasu, 效す)

Korean

Hanja

效 (eumhun 본받을 효 (bonbadeul hyo))

  1. hanja form? of 효 (“effect”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

效: Hán Nôm readings: hiệu

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