効

See also: 效

効 U+52B9, 効 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52B9 ← 劸 [U+52B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 劺 → [U+52BA]

Translingual

Han character

効 (Kangxi radical 19, 力+6, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 卜大大尸 (YKKS), composition ⿰交力)

1. efficacious, effectiveness
2. to toil, to serve in the army

Derived characters

• 俲, 𤟋, 𥇟

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 147, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2334
• Dae Jaweon: page 331, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 370, character 1
• Unihan data for U+52B9

Chinese

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 力

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 効 – see 效 (“to devote; result; effect; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 效).

Japanese

Shinjitai	効
Kyūjitai	效

Kanji

効

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 效)

Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: きく (kiku, 効く, Jōyō)、ならう (narau, 効う)、いたす (itasu, 効す)

Compounds

• 有(ゆう)効(こう) (yūkō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
効
こう Grade: 5
kan'on

Alternative spelling
效 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 効 (MC haewH), a variant of 效 (MC haewH).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) こー [kóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ː]

Noun

効(こう) • (kō) ^{←かう (kau)?}

1. efficacy, benefit, effect

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
効
かい Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
效 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 効 – see the following entry.

【甲斐かい】 [noun] value, reward, avail, being fruitful or worth doing [proper noun] Kai (a city in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan) [proper noun] Kai (a historical province of Japan, roughly corresponding to present-day Yamanashi Prefecture) [proper noun] a surname [proper noun] a male given name Alternative spelling 詮

(This term, 効, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^△効”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

効 • (hyo) (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune–Reischauer hyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

効: Hán Nôm readings: hiệu

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