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rice cooker · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 电 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 電鍋; on the Mainland it is 电饭煲 - both point at “rice cooker”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 電鍋、電飯煲 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: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 電鍋 | 电饭煲 |
| Reading | ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄍㄨㄛ diàn guō | diàn fàn bāo ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄈㄢˋ ㄅㄠ |
| Senses | rice cooker | electric rice cooker |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 電鍋 · 電飯煲 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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