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visualization · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 视化 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 視覺化; on the Mainland it is 可视化 - both point at “visualization”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 視覺化、可視化 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 | 視覺化 | 可视化 |
| Reading | ㄕˋ ㄐㄧㄠˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ shì jiào huà | kě shì huà ㄎㄜˇ ㄕˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ |
| Senses | visualization | visualization |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 視覺化 · 可視化 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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