长 cháng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 长 — long, lasting
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
长效
chángxiào
long-acting; long-term effect
Characters in this word
效 xiào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 攵 — to rap, to tap
- Made of
- 交 to connect 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 政策不能只追求短期轰动，更要建立长效治理机制。 Zhèngcè bù néng zhǐ zhuīqiú duǎnqī hōngdòng, gèng yào jiànlì chángxiào zhìlǐ jīzhì. Policy must not pursue only short-term sensation; it must establish long-term governance mechanisms.
- 这种药是长效的，一天吃一次就够了。 Zhè zhǒng yào shì chángxiào de, yì tiān chī yí cì jiù gòu le. This medicine is long-acting; once a day is enough.
- 学校建立了长效机制，确保每个学生都能得到帮助。 Xuéxiào jiànlì le chángxiào jīzhì, quèbǎo měi ge xuésheng dōu néng dédào bāngzhù. The school set up a long-term mechanism to ensure every student can get help.