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video · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 影片; on the Mainland it is 视频 - both point at “video”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 影片、視頻 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
影片 is L3 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 视频 is HSK 5 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 影片 | 视频 |
| Reading | ㄧㄥˇ ㄆㄧㄢˋ yǐng piàn | shì pín ㄕˋ ㄆㄧㄣˊ |
| Senses | a copy of a film; film; motion picture; movie; (Tw) video; video clip | video |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L3 | HSK 5 |
| MOE records | 影片 · 視頻 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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