Kanji1 / 8
効 kanji
merit, efficacy, efficiency, benefit
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
コウ
Kun readings
きくききめならう
Variant forms
效Words with 効
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3効果Populareffect; effectiveness; efficacy; result; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
- N3有効Popularvalid; effective; yuko (judo)
- N2効力Populareffect; efficacy; validity; potency
- N1効率Popularefficiency
- N1無効Popularinvalid; void; ineffective; unavailable
- —効能Populareffect; effectiveness; efficacy; virtue; benefit
- —効用Popularuse; utility; effect; benefit
- —時効Popularstatute of limitations; lapse of rights after a period of time; prescription (including acquisitive and extinctive prescription); becoming invalid or void after a set time; ageing; aging
- —実効Popularpractical effect; efficacy; efficiency
- —即効Popularimmediate effect; instant effect
- —発効Popularcoming into effect
- —逆効果Popularopposite effect; adverse effect; backfiring
- —効果的Populareffective; successful
- —効率的Popularefficient
- —特効薬Popularspecific medicine; wonder drug; silver bullet
- —有効活用Populareffective use; making effective use (of)
- —効efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success
- —偉効great effect
- —効験efficacy; effect
- —失効lapse; abatement; invalidation; expiration; expiry; becoming void