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to make a telephone call (generally as a representative of a company, school or agency etc · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 电 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 電訪; on the Mainland it is 打电话 - both point at “to make a telephone call (generally as a representative of a company, school or agency etc”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 電訪、打電話 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
打电话 is HSK 1 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 電訪 | 打电话 |
| Reading | ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄈㄤˇ diàn fǎng | dǎ diàn huà ㄉㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ |
| Senses | to make a telephone call (generally as a representative of a company, school or agency etc | to make a telephone call |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 1 |
| MOE records | 電訪 · 打電話 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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