起到 On the HSK 5 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1. qǐdào ㄑㄧˇ ㄉㄠˋ (in an expression of the form 起到[qi3 dao4] + … + 作用[zuo4 yong4]) to have (a (motivating etc) effect) to play (a (stabilizing etc) role) Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT