Home/Taiwanese Mandarin/All pairs/外燴 vs 配餐
catering · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 外燴; on the Mainland it is 配餐 - both point at “catering”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 外燴、配餐 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 | 外燴 | 配餐 |
| Reading | ㄨㄞˋ ㄏㄨㄟˋ wài huì | pèi cān ㄆㄟˋ ㄘㄢ |
| Senses | catering | catering |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 外燴 · 配餐 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
Taiwan vs Mainland explorer (search all 953 pairs, random pair, MOE reading table) · every pair, A–Z · MOE standard characters · learning Mandarin for Taiwan · dictionary