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a window · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 窗 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 視窗; on the Mainland it is 窗口 - both point at “a window”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 視窗、窗口 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
窗口 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 | 視窗 | 窗口 |
| Reading | ㄕˋ ㄔㄨㄤ shì chuāng | chuāng kǒu ㄔㄨㄤ ㄎㄡˇ |
| Senses | a window (on a computer screen) | window; computer operating system window; fig. medium |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 6 |
| MOE records | 視窗 · 窗口 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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