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C size battery · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 三號電池; on the Mainland it is 二号电池 - both point at “C size battery”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 三號電池、二號電池 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’s explicit “Taiwan/PRC equivalent” notes.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 三號電池 | 二号电池 |
| Reading | ㄙㄢ ㄏㄠˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄔˊ sān hào diàn chí | èr hào diàn chí ㄦˋ ㄏㄠˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄔˊ |
| Senses | C size battery | C size battery |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 三號電池 · 二號電池 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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