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微控制器 vs 单片机

microcontroller · Different everyday word

台灣 · Taiwan
微控制器 ㄨㄟ ㄎㄨㄥˋ ㄓˋ ㄑㄧˋ · wēi kòng zhì qì
vs
大陆 · Mainland
单片机 dān piàn jī · ㄉㄢ ㄆㄧㄢˋ ㄐㄧ

What differs, and by how much

Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 微控制器; on the Mainland it is 单片机 - both point at “microcontroller”.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 微控制器、單片機 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: the OpenCC cross-strait conversion table, which maps each Mainland term to the form used in Taiwan.

Side by side

Taiwan · 台灣Mainland · 大陆
Written form 微控制器 单片机
Reading ㄨㄟ ㄎㄨㄥˋ ㄓˋ ㄑㄧˋ wēi kòng zhì qì dān piàn jī ㄉㄢ ㄆㄧㄢˋ ㄐㄧ
Senses microcontroller microcontroller; one-chip computer
Syllabus — —
MOE records 微控制器 · 單片機
Dictionary not in the LinZi dictionary entry →
Audio —

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