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type · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 型 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 型別; on the Mainland it is 类型 - both point at “type”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 型別、類型 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
类型 is HSK 4 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 | 型別 | 类型 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄧㄝˊ xíng bié | lèi xíng ㄌㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ |
| Senses | type | type; kind; category; (computer programming) type |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 4 |
| MOE records | 型別 · 類型 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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