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menu · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 選單; on the Mainland it is 菜单 - both point at “menu”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 選單、菜單 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
菜单 is HSK 2 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 | 選單 | 菜单 |
| Reading | ㄒㄩㄢˇ ㄉㄢ xuǎn dān | cài dān ㄘㄞˋ ㄉㄢ |
| Senses | menu | menu |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 2 |
| MOE records | 選單 · 菜單 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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