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(onom.) ding dong · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 叮噹; on the Mainland it is 丁当 - both point at “(onom.) ding dong”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 叮噹、丁當 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.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 叮噹 | 丁当 |
| Reading | ㄉㄧㄥ ㄉㄤ dīng dāng | dīng dāng ㄉㄧㄥ ㄉㄤ |
| Senses | (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound | (onom.) ding dong |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 叮噹 · 丁當 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | |
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