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data center · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 中心 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 資料中心; on the Mainland it is 数据中心 - both point at “data center”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 資料中心、數據中心 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 資料中心 | 数据中心 |
| Reading | ㄗ ㄌㄧㄠˋ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄒㄧㄣ zī liào zhōng xīn | shù jù zhōng xīn ㄕㄨˋ ㄐㄩˋ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄒㄧㄣ |
| Senses | data center | (computing) data center |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 資料中心 · 數據中心 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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