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imitation · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 模擬; on the Mainland it is 仿真 - both point at “imitation”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 模擬、仿真 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 | 模擬 | 仿真 |
| Reading | ㄇㄛˊ ㄋㄧˇ mó nǐ | fǎng zhēn ㄈㄤˇ ㄓㄣ |
| Senses | imitation; to simulate; to imitate | to emulate; to simulate; emulation |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 模擬 · 仿真 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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