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to protect against poisonous substances, narcotics or computer viruses · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 防毒; on the Mainland it is 杀毒 - both point at “to protect against poisonous substances, narcotics or computer viruses”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 防毒、殺毒 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
杀毒 is HSK 5 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 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 | 防毒 | 杀毒 |
| Reading | ㄈㄤˊ ㄉㄨˊ fáng dú | shā dú ㄕㄚ ㄉㄨˊ |
| Senses | to protect against poisonous substances, narcotics or computer viruses | to disinfect; (computing) to destroy a computer virus |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 5 |
| MOE records | 防毒 · 殺毒 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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