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videotape · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 錄影帶; on the Mainland it is 录像带 - both point at “videotape”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 錄影帶、錄像帶 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 錄影帶 | 录像带 |
| Reading | ㄌㄨˋ ㄧㄥˇ ㄉㄞˋ lù yǐng dài | lù xiàng dài ㄌㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄉㄞˋ |
| Senses | videotape | videotape; video cassette |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 錄影帶 · 錄像帶 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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