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drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing) · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 磁碟機代號; on the Mainland it is 盘符 - both point at “drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 磁碟機代號、盤符 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 | 磁碟機代號 | 盘符 |
| Reading | ㄘˊ ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄐㄧ ㄉㄞˋ ㄏㄠˋ cí dié jī dài hào | pán fú ㄆㄢˊ ㄈㄨˊ |
| Senses | drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing) | drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 磁碟機代號 · 盤符 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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