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筆記型電腦 vs 笔记本电脑

laptop · Preferred written form

台灣 · Taiwan
筆記型電腦 ㄅㄧˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄋㄠˇ · bǐ jì xíng diàn nǎo
vs
大陆 · Mainland
笔记本电脑 bǐ jì běn diàn nǎo · ㄅㄧˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄅㄣˇ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄋㄠˇ

What differs, and by how much

Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 筆記型電腦; on the Mainland it is 笔记本电脑 - both point at “laptop”.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 筆記型電腦、筆記本電腦 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.

Neither term carries an HSK or TOCFL level in this table - this pair is dictionary-recorded, not syllabus-derived.

Pair source: the OpenCC cross-strait conversion table, which maps each Mainland term to the form used in Taiwan.

Side by side

Taiwan · 台灣Mainland · 大陆
Written form 筆記型電腦 笔记本电脑
Reading ㄅㄧˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄋㄠˇ bǐ jì xíng diàn nǎo bǐ jì běn diàn nǎo ㄅㄧˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄅㄣˇ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄋㄠˇ
Senses laptop laptop; notebook (computer)
Syllabus — —
MOE records 筆記型電腦 · 筆記本電腦
Dictionary not in the LinZi dictionary entry →
Audio —

In context

“笔记本电脑” in a sentence
请给我看一下你的笔记本电脑。
Please show me your notebook.

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