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tablecloth · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 桌布; on the Mainland it is 壁纸 - both point at “tablecloth”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 桌布、壁紙 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.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 桌布 | 壁纸 |
| Reading | ㄓㄨㄛ ㄅㄨˋ zhuō bù | bì zhǐ ㄅㄧˋ ㄓˇ |
| Senses | tablecloth; (Tw) (computing) background; wallpaper (of a desktop, phone etc) | wallpaper |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 桌布 · 壁紙 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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