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to duplicate · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 複製; on the Mainland it is 拷贝 - both point at “to duplicate”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 複製、拷貝 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
複製 is L4 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 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 | 複製 | 拷贝 |
| Reading | ㄈㄨˋ ㄓˋ fù zhì | kǎo bèi ㄎㄠˇ ㄅㄟˋ |
| Senses | to duplicate; to make a copy of; to copy | copy; to copy (loanword) |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L4 | — |
| MOE records | 複製 · 拷貝 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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