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(fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 零碼; on the Mainland it is 断码 - both point at “(fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 零碼、斷碼 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 零碼 | 断码 |
| Reading | ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄚˇ líng mǎ | duàn mǎ ㄉㄨㄢˋ ㄇㄚˇ |
| Senses | (fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes | (fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 零碼 · 斷碼 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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