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効 kanji
merit, efficacy, efficiency, benefit
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
コウ
Kun readings
きくききめならう
Variant forms
效Words with 効
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —ストライサンド効果Streisand effect (unintentionally increasing public awareness of information as a result of trying to suppress it)
- —電界効果トランジスターField Effect Transistor; FET
- —デモンストレーション効果demonstration effect
- —資源の有効な利用の促進に関する法律Law for the Promotion of Utilization of Recycled Resources
- —効が有るto be beneficial to; to be efficacious
- —有効けたsignificant digit
- —剪断効果shear effect; shearing effect
- —浦島効果time dilation
- —瓶首効果bottleneck effect
- —吊橋効果suspension bridge effect; phenomenon where someone in fear or surprise mistakes their physiological response as romantic arousal
- —効果てき面having an immediate effect; taking immediate effect
- —薬石効なくno medical treatment having proved effective
- —効を奏するto succeed; to bear fruit
- —つり橋効果suspension bridge effect; phenomenon where someone in fear or surprise mistakes their physiological response as romantic arousal
- —釣り橋効果suspension bridge effect; phenomenon where someone in fear or surprise mistakes their physiological response as romantic arousal
- —効果てきめんhaving an immediate effect; taking immediate effect
- —プラセボ効果placebo effect
- —ノーシーボ効果nocebo effect
- —電界効果トランジスタField Effect Transistor; FET