効

common

コウ/KŌ/    き.く/ki.ku/    ききめ/kikime/    なら.う/nara.u/KOU/コウ/    ki.ku/き.く/    kikime/ききめ/    nara.u/なら.う/

merit;  efficacy;  efficiency;  benefit

Radical: 力 (power).   Strokes: 8画.   Elements: 父力亠.   Variants: 效.   Pinyin: xiào.   Hangul: 효 [hyo].

Jōyō Kanji 5th Grade.   JLPT N2.

Example compounds:
コウKŌ音響効果【おんきょうこうかonkyōkōka】sound effects; acoustics
効【こうkō】efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success
失効【しっこうshikkō】lapse; abatement; invalidation
きくkiku効く【きくkiku】to be effective; to do its work; to be possible to use
目が効く【めがきくmegakiku】to have an eye for
割引が効く【わりびきがきくwaribikigakiku】to be able to get a (type of) discount
Codepoints and classification codes:
52b9–Unicode
24-90–JIS X 0208
1-6-2–SKIP
2g6.2–TKD
0442.7–Four Corner
445–De Roo
Dictionary indices:
722–Classic Nelson
535–The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
1265–New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
849–Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern
1276–Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
515–A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken)
653–Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill
623–Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill
2334–Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 2 p. 381
671–A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by K.G. Henshall
816–Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
782–Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese (H) by F. Sakade
370–Kanji Flashcards by M. Hodges and T. Okazaki
697–Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese: Third Edition 3rd edition by Henshall
682–Tuttle Kanji Cards by A. Kask
501–Kanji in Context by Nishiguchi and Kono
216–Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1284–Y. Maniette's French adaptation of Heisig
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