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to touch · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 觸控; on the Mainland it is 触摸 - both point at “to touch”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 觸控、觸摸 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
触摸 is HSK 7-9 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 | 觸控 | 触摸 |
| Reading | ㄔㄨˋ ㄎㄨㄥˋ chù kòng | chù mō ㄔㄨˋ ㄇㄛ |
| Senses | to touch | to touch |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 觸控 · 觸摸 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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