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to search · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 搜尋; on the Mainland it is 搜索 - both point at “to search”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 搜尋、搜索 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
搜索 is HSK 5 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
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 | 搜尋 | 搜索 |
| Reading | ㄙㄡ ㄒㄩㄣˊ sōu xún | sōu suǒ ㄙㄡ ㄙㄨㄛˇ |
| Senses | to search; to look for | to search (a place, a database, online etc); to search for (sth) |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 5 |
| MOE records | 搜尋 · 搜索 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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