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to retreat into · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 縮排; on the Mainland it is 缩进 - both point at “to retreat into”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 縮排、縮進 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 | 縮排 | 缩进 |
| Reading | ㄙㄨㄛ ㄆㄞˊ suō pái | suō jìn ㄙㄨㄛ ㄐㄧㄣˋ |
| Senses | to retreat into | to retreat into; to draw back into; (typography) to indent |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 縮排 · 縮進 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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