效 力

xiàolì

“Effectiveness” in Chinese is 效力 (xiàolì).

Meaning

effectiveness
positive effect
to serve (in some capacity)

Example

这份合同没有法律效力。

This contract is null and void.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

xiàoHSK 310 strokesto imitate (variant of 效[xiao4])lìHSK 22 strokespower

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