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to inspect · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 檢視; on the Mainland it is 查看 - both point at “to inspect”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 檢視、查看 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
查看 is HSK 6 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 | 檢視 | 查看 |
| Reading | ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄕˋ jiǎn shì | chá kàn ㄔㄚˊ ㄎㄢˋ |
| Senses | to inspect; to examine | to look over; to examine; to check up |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 6 |
| MOE records | 檢視 · 查看 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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