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procedures · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 程 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 程序; on the Mainland it is 进程 - both point at “procedures”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 程序、進程 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
程序 is L4 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 进程 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 | 程序 | 进程 |
| Reading | ㄔㄥˊ ㄒㄩˋ chéng xù | jìn chéng ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄔㄥˊ |
| Senses | procedures; sequence; order | course of events; process; (computing) process (a running instance of a program) |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L4 | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 程序 · 進程 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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