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CE · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 西元; on the Mainland it is 公元 - both point at “CE”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 西元、公元 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
公元 is HSK 4 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
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 | 西元 | 公元 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧ ㄩㄢˊ xī yuán | gōng yuán ㄍㄨㄥ ㄩㄢˊ |
| Senses | CE | CE (Common Era); Christian Era; AD (Anno Domini) |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 4 |
| MOE records | 西元 · 公元 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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