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operating system · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 作系统 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 作業系統; on the Mainland it is 操作系统 - both point at “operating system”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 作業系統、操作系統 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 | 作業系統 | 操作系统 |
| Reading | ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄧㄝˋ ㄒㄧˋ ㄊㄨㄥˇ zuò yè xì tǒng | cāo zuò xì tǒng ㄘㄠ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄒㄧˋ ㄊㄨㄥˇ |
| Senses | operating system | operating system |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 作業系統 · 操作系統 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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