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public switched telephone network (PSTN) · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 公用交換電話網; on the Mainland it is 公共交换电话网 - both point at “public switched telephone network (PSTN)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 公用交換電話網、公共交換電話網 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, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 公用交換電話網 | 公共交换电话网 |
| Reading | ㄍㄨㄥ ㄩㄥˋ ㄐㄧㄠ ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄨㄤˇ gōng yòng jiāo huàn diàn huà wǎng | gōng gòng jiāo huàn diàn huà wǎng ㄍㄨㄥ ㄍㄨㄥˋ ㄐㄧㄠ ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄨㄤˇ |
| Senses | public switched telephone network (PSTN) | public switched telephone network (PSTN) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 公用交換電話網 · 公共交換電話網 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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