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(surname) Boole · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 布林; on the Mainland it is 布尔 - both point at “(surname) Boole”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 布林、布爾 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 | 布林 | 布尔 |
| Reading | ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ bù lín | bù ěr ㄅㄨˋ ㄦˇ |
| Senses | (surname) Boole | (surname) Boole |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 布林 · 布爾 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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