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video game · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 電動; on the Mainland it is 电玩 - both point at “video game”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 電動、電玩 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
電動 is L4 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list.
Pair source: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 電動 | 电玩 |
| Reading | ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄨㄥˋ diàn dòng | diàn wán ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄨㄢˊ |
| Senses | electric-powered; (Tw) video game | video game |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L4 | — |
| MOE records | 電動 · 電玩 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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