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consonant · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 子音; on the Mainland it is 辅音 - both point at “consonant”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 子音、輔音 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 | 子音 | 辅音 |
| Reading | ㄗˇ ㄧㄣ zǐ yīn | fǔ yīn ㄈㄨˇ ㄧㄣ |
| Senses | consonant | consonant |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 子音 · 輔音 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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