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(math.) vector · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 向量; on the Mainland it is 矢量 - both point at “(math.) vector”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 向量、矢量 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 | 向量 | 矢量 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄌㄧㄤˋ xiàng liàng | shǐ liàng ㄕˇ ㄌㄧㄤˋ |
| Senses | (math.) vector | (math.) vector |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 向量 · 矢量 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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