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chief technology officer (CTO) · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 技术 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 技術長; on the Mainland it is 首席技术官 - both point at “chief technology officer (CTO)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 技術長、首席技術官 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 | 技術長 | 首席技术官 |
| Reading | ㄐㄧˋ ㄕㄨˋ ㄔㄤˊ jì shù cháng | shǒu xí jì shù guān ㄕㄡˇ ㄒㄧˊ ㄐㄧˋ ㄕㄨˋ ㄍㄨㄢ |
| Senses | chief technology officer (CTO) | chief technology officer (CTO) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 技術長 · 首席技術官 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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