Chinese symbol for “limitation”
时效
shí xiào
Traditional: 時效
timeliness; period of viability or validity; (law) prescription; limitation; (metallurgy) aging
The closest CC-CEDICT match for limitation is 时效 (shí xiào), defined as: timeliness; period of viability or validity; (law) prescription; limitation; (metallurgy) aging.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 时效.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
| 时候 (時候) | shí hou | time; length of time |
| 同时 (同時) | tóng shí | at the same time; simultaneously |
| 当时 (當時) | dāng shí | then; at that time |
| 时期 (時期) | shí qī | period; phase |
| 有效 | yǒu xiào | effective; in effect |
| 效果 | xiào guǒ | result; effect |
| 效应 (效應) | xiào yìng | effect (scientific phenomenon) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “limitation”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.