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infrastructure · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 基础设 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 基礎建設; on the Mainland it is 基础设施 - both point at “infrastructure”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 基礎建設、基礎設施 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 | 基礎建設 | 基础设施 |
| Reading | ㄐㄧ ㄔㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄕㄜˋ jī chǔ jiàn shè | jī chǔ shè shī ㄐㄧ ㄔㄨˇ ㄕㄜˋ ㄕ |
| Senses | infrastructure | infrastructure |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 基礎建設 · 基礎設施 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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