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adapter · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 介面卡; on the Mainland it is 适配器 - both point at “adapter”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 介面卡、適配器 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 | 介面卡 | 适配器 |
| Reading | ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ㄎㄚˇ jiè miàn kǎ | shì pèi qì ㄕˋ ㄆㄟˋ ㄑㄧˋ |
| Senses | adapter | adapter (device) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 介面卡 · 適配器 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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