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作用

zuòyòng
nounHSK 2

“To act on” in Chinese is 作用 (zuòyòng).

Meaning

  • to act on; to affect
  • action; function; activity
  • impact; result; effect
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  • purpose; intent
  • suffix-ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用[yi4 zhi4 zuo4 yong4], inhibition

Example

它现在起作用了。

It works now.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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