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to release · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 釋出; on the Mainland it is 发布 - both point at “to release”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 釋出、發布 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
发布 is HSK 5 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
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 | 釋出 | 发布 |
| Reading | ㄕˋ ㄔㄨ shì chū | fā bù ㄈㄚ ㄅㄨˋ |
| Senses | to release | to release; to issue; to announce |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 5 |
| MOE records | 釋出 · 發布 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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