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生效

shēngxiào
HSK 7-9

Meaning

  • (of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative

Example

法律将从4月1日起生效。

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

shēngHSK 15 strokesto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be bornxiàoHSK 310 strokesto imitate (variant of 效[xiao4])

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