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screensaver · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 保 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 螢幕保護程式; on the Mainland it is 屏保 - both point at “screensaver”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 螢幕保護程式、屏保 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 | 螢幕保護程式 | 屏保 |
| Reading | ㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄨˋ ㄅㄠˇ ㄏㄨˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄕˋ yíng mù bǎo hù chéng shì | píng bǎo ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄠˇ |
| Senses | screensaver | screensaver; abbr. for 屏幕保護程序|屏幕保护程序 (屏幕保護程序|屏幕保护程序 · screensaver) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 螢幕保護程式 · 屏保 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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