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to open · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 开 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 開啟; on the Mainland it is 打开 - both point at “to open”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 開啟、打開 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
開啟 is L5 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 打开 is HSK 1 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 | 開啟 | 打开 |
| Reading | ㄎㄞ ㄑㄧˇ kāi qǐ | dǎ kāi ㄉㄚˇ ㄎㄞ |
| Senses | (computing) to enable (a feature); to open (sth that has been sealed); to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc) | to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L5 | HSK 1 |
| MOE records | 開啟 · 打開 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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