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AAA battery · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 四號電池; on the Mainland it is 七号电池 - both point at “AAA battery”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 四號電池、七號電池 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 | 四號電池 | 七号电池 |
| Reading | ㄙˋ ㄏㄠˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄔˊ sì hào diàn chí | qī hào diàn chí ㄑㄧ ㄏㄠˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄔˊ |
| Senses | AAA battery | AAA battery |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 四號電池 · 七號電池 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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