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attached externally · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 外掛; on the Mainland it is 插件 - both point at “attached externally”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 外掛、插件 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 | 外掛 | 插件 |
| Reading | ㄨㄞˋ ㄍㄨㄚˋ wài guà | chā jiàn ㄔㄚ ㄐㄧㄢˋ |
| Senses | attached externally (e.g. fuel tank); plug-in; add-on; special software used to cheat in an online game | plug-in (software or hardware); to plug in a component |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 外掛 · 插件 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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