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nested · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 巢狀; on the Mainland it is 嵌套 - both point at “nested”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 巢狀、嵌套 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: 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 | 巢狀 | 嵌套 |
| Reading | ㄔㄠˊ ㄓㄨㄤˋ cháo zhuàng | qiàn tào ㄑㄧㄢˋ ㄊㄠˋ |
| Senses | nested | nested; nesting |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 巢狀 · 嵌套 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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