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to cut · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 剪下; on the Mainland it is 剪切 - both point at “to cut”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 剪下、剪切 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 | 剪下 | 剪切 |
| Reading | ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄚˋ jiǎn xià | jiǎn qiē ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄑㄧㄝ |
| Senses | to cut | to cut (with scissors or similar tool); to shear; (geology) shear; (computing) to cut (as in "cut-and-paste") |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 剪下 · 剪切 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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