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actual example · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 例 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 例項; on the Mainland it is 实例 - both point at “actual example”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 例項、實例 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 | 例項 | 实例 |
| Reading | ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄤˋ lì xiàng | shí lì ㄕˊ ㄌㄧˋ |
| Senses | actual example | actual example; living example; illustration |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 例項 · 實例 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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