作用

HSK 4#955 by frequencyradical 亻

zuò yòng["n","v"]

action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; to act on; to affect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 用, inhibition

Examples

这药没有副作用。

This medicine does not have side effects.

它现在起作用了。

It works now.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.