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Costco (warehouse club chain) · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 市 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 好市多; on the Mainland it is 开市客 - both point at “Costco (warehouse club chain)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 好市多、開市客 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 | 好市多 | 开市客 |
| Reading | ㄏㄠˇ ㄕˋ ㄉㄨㄛ hǎo shì duō | kāi shì kè ㄎㄞ ㄕˋ ㄎㄜˋ |
| Senses | Costco (warehouse club chain) | Costco (warehouse club chain) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 好市多 · 開市客 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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