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to crowd together · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 集 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 叢集; on the Mainland it is 集羣 - both point at “to crowd together”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 叢集、集羣 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 | 叢集 | 集羣 |
| Reading | ㄘㄨㄥˊ ㄐㄧˊ cóng jí | jí qun ㄐㄧˊ |
| Senses | to crowd together; to pile up; to cluster; (book) collection; series | to crowd together |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 叢集 · 集羣 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | |
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