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horizontal · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 水準; on the Mainland it is 水平 - both point at “horizontal”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 水平 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
水準 is L3 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 水平 is HSK 2 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 | 水準 | 水平 |
| Reading | ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄓㄨㄣˇ shuǐ zhǔn | shuǐ píng ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄆㄧㄥˊ |
| Senses | level (of achievement etc); standard; level (surveying) | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L3 | HSK 2 |
| MOE records | 水平 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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