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cursor · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 游標; on the Mainland it is 光标 - both point at “cursor”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 游標、光標 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 | 游標 | 光标 |
| Reading | ㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄧㄠ yóu biāo | guāng biāo ㄍㄨㄤ ㄅㄧㄠ |
| Senses | cursor | cursor (computing) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 游標 · 光標 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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