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to cover · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 遮蔽; on the Mainland it is 屏蔽 - both point at “to cover”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 遮蔽、屏蔽 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
遮蔽 is L5 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list.
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 | 遮蔽 | 屏蔽 |
| Reading | ㄓㄜ ㄅㄧˋ zhē bì | píng bì ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄧˋ |
| Senses | to cover; to hide from view; to obstruct or block | to screen; to block (sth or sb); to shield |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L5 | — |
| MOE records | 遮蔽 · 屏蔽 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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