こう
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. effect; effectiveness; efficacy; result
Noun
2. effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
Kanji used
be effective
fruit
Pitch accent
うか
Top 1100
Composed of
efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success
phala (attained state, result); enlightenment (as the fruits of one's Buddhist practice); fruit; counter for pieces of fruit
Used in vocabulary (95 in total)
effective; successful
opposite effect; adverse effect; backfiring
exceptionally effective; overwhelming effectiveness
impact of publicity or propaganda
having an immediate effect; taking immediate effect
(positive) economic effect
having an immediate effect; taking immediate effect
to bear fruit; to take effect
(medicine with) a curative effect; (having) therapeutic value
butterfly effect (chaos theory)
visual effect(s) (e.g. in a film)
deterrent effect; chilling effect; restraining effect
sound effects; acoustics
ripple effect; spillover effect; propagation effect
effectiveness of advertising
having an immediate effect; taking immediate effect
tunnel effect; tunneling
Barnum effect; Forer effect
cost-effectiveness; price-performance ratio
Concorde fallacy; Concorde effect; sunk cost fallacy
customer appeal; the power to appeal to customers
stack effect; chimney effect
multiplier effect (econ.)
alienation effect; Verfremdungseffekt
Mössbauer effect; recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence
Raman effect (of inelastic photon scattering)
higher-order effect
shear effect; shearing effect
shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors)
Edison effect (thermionic emission from a heated metal or semiconductor)
Trump Effect; impact on business of the election of Donald Trump as US president
Polyanna principle; Polyanna effect
stuck song syndrome (esp. fragment of a song)
fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)
shear effect; shearing effect
Examples (8 in total)
The effect was immediate.
This new medicine has a lasting effect.
A research organization investigated the effect.