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單眼相機 vs 单反相机

single-lens reflex camera · Preferred written form

台灣 · Taiwan
單眼相機 ㄉㄢ ㄧㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄐㄧ · dān yǎn xiāng jī
vs
大陆 · Mainland
单反相机 dān fǎn xiāng jī · ㄉㄢ ㄈㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄐㄧ

What differs, and by how much

Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 單眼相機; on the Mainland it is 单反相机 - both point at “single-lens reflex camera”.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 單眼相機、單反相機 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.

Side by side

Taiwan · 台灣Mainland · 大陆
Written form 單眼相機 单反相机
Reading ㄉㄢ ㄧㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄐㄧ dān yǎn xiāng jī dān fǎn xiāng jī ㄉㄢ ㄈㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄐㄧ
Senses single-lens reflex camera single-lens reflex camera
Syllabus — —
MOE records 單眼相機 · 單反相機
Dictionary not in the LinZi dictionary not in the LinZi dictionary
Audio — —

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