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plastic bag · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 塑膠袋; on the Mainland it is 塑料袋 - both point at “plastic bag”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 塑膠袋、塑料袋 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
塑料袋 is HSK 4 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 | 塑膠袋 | 塑料袋 |
| Reading | ㄙㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄠ ㄉㄞˋ sù jiāo dài | sù liào dài ㄙㄨˋ ㄌㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄞˋ |
| Senses | plastic bag | plastic bag |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 4 |
| MOE records | 塑膠袋 · 塑料袋 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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