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meter · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 公尺; on the Mainland it is 米 - both point at “meter”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 米 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
公尺 is L3 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 米 is HSK 3 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 公尺 | 米 |
| Reading | ㄍㄨㄥ ㄔˇ gōng chǐ | mǐ ㄇㄧˇ |
| Senses | (Tw) meter (unit of length) | uncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L3 | HSK 3 |
| MOE records | 米 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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