影响
Written yǐng xiǎng, said yíng xiǎng — a third tone before another third tone is said as a second.
Meaning
- influence
- effect
- to influence
Measure word
股 gǔ
Example sentence
那环境影响呢？
What about the environmental impact?
Characters in 影响
- 影 yǐng shadow; image; film
- 响 xiǎng echo
影 shadow plus 响 sound or echo. Influence is shadow and echo — what a thing throws off — and the image is unusually vivid.