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to start using · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 啟用; on the Mainland it is 激活 - both point at “to start using”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 啟用、激活 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
激活 is HSK 7-9 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 | 啟用 | 激活 |
| Reading | ㄑㄧˇ ㄩㄥˋ qǐ yòng | jī huó ㄐㄧ ㄏㄨㄛˊ |
| Senses | to start using; (computing) to enable (a feature) | to activate |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 啟用 · 激活 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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