qǐ​zuò​yòng

take effect

起作用 qǐ​zuò​yòng
take effect verb
to produce a result, be effective, or start working as intended

起作用

zhè zhǒng yào hěn kuài jiù huì qǐ​zuò​yòng.

This medicine will take effect soon.

play a role verb
to serve a function or act as a contributing factor in a process

Frequency

Written text
4.53 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)