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bus · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 公车 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 公車; on the Mainland it is 公交车 - both point at “bus”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 公車、公交車 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
公交车 is HSK 2 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 | 公車 | 公交车 |
| Reading | ㄍㄨㄥ ㄔㄜ gōng chē | gōng jiāo chē ㄍㄨㄥ ㄐㄧㄠ ㄔㄜ |
| Senses | bus; abbr. for 公共汽車|公共汽车 (公共汽車|公共汽车 · bus); abbr. for 公務用車|公务用车 | public transport vehicle; town bus |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 2 |
| MOE records | 公車 · 公交車 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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