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screen · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 螢幕; on the Mainland it is 屏幕 - both point at “screen”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 螢幕、屏幕 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
屏幕 is HSK 6 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 | 螢幕 | 屏幕 |
| Reading | ㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄨˋ yíng mù | píng mù ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄨˋ |
| Senses | screen | screen (TV, computer or movie) |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 6 |
| MOE records | 螢幕 · 屏幕 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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