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tram · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 电车 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 路面電車; on the Mainland it is 电车 - both point at “tram”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 路面電車、電車 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
电车 is HSK 6 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 | 路面電車 | 电车 |
| Reading | ㄌㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄔㄜ lù miàn diàn chē | diàn chē ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄔㄜ |
| Senses | tram | tram; streetcar; trolleybus; electric car |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 6 |
| MOE records | 路面電車 · 電車 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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