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stockpile · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 儲存; on the Mainland it is 保存 - both point at “stockpile”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 儲存、保存 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
儲存 is L4 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 保存 is HSK 3 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: the OpenCC cross-strait conversion table, which maps each Mainland term to the form used in Taiwan.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 儲存 | 保存 |
| Reading | ㄔㄨˇ ㄘㄨㄣˊ chǔ cún | bǎo cún ㄅㄠˇ ㄘㄨㄣˊ |
| Senses | stockpile; to store; to stockpile | to conserve; to preserve; to keep; to store; (computing) to save (a file etc) |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L4 | HSK 3 |
| MOE records | 儲存 · 保存 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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