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to photocopy · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 影印; on the Mainland it is 复印 - both point at “to photocopy”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 影印、複印 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
影印 is L4 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 复印 is HSK 3 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 影印 | 复印 |
| Reading | ㄧㄥˇ ㄧㄣˋ yǐng yìn | fù yìn ㄈㄨˋ ㄧㄣˋ |
| Senses | photographic reproduction; photocopying; photo-offset | to photocopy; to duplicate a document |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L4 | HSK 3 |
| MOE records | 影印 · 複印 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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