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chief information officer (CIO) · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 資訊長; on the Mainland it is 首席信息官 - both point at “chief information officer (CIO)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 資訊長、首席信息官 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 | 資訊長 | 首席信息官 |
| Reading | ㄗ ㄒㄩㄣˋ ㄔㄤˊ zī xùn cháng | shǒu xí xìn xī guān ㄕㄡˇ ㄒㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄒㄧ ㄍㄨㄢ |
| Senses | chief information officer (CIO) | chief information officer (CIO) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 資訊長 · 首席信息官 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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