Affect in Chinese
to affect · HSK 3
影响
- 影 shadow
- 响 to sound
Counted with 个: 一个影响
别让坏心情影响你的工作。 Don't let a bad mood affect your work.
Other ways to say affect
More words with 影 or 响
How do you say affect in Chinese?
Affect in Chinese is 影响 (yǐng xiǎng). You can also say 作用 (zuò yòng), 感染 (gǎn rǎn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.