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to stop using · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 停用; on the Mainland it is 禁用 - both point at “to stop using”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 停用、禁用 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 | 停用 | 禁用 |
| Reading | ㄊㄧㄥˊ ㄩㄥˋ tíng yòng | jīn yòng ㄐㄧㄣ ㄩㄥˋ |
| Senses | to stop using; to suspend; to discontinue | to withstand heavy use; durable |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 停用 · 禁用 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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