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to archive · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 存檔; on the Mainland it is 存盘 - both point at “to archive”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 存檔、存盤 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 | 存檔 | 存盘 |
| Reading | ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄉㄤˋ cún dàng | cún pán ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄆㄢˊ |
| Senses | to archive; to place on file; saved data (for a video game etc) | to archive |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 存檔 · 存盤 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | |
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