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to eat in (at a restaurant) · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 內用; on the Mainland it is 堂食 - both point at “to eat in (at a restaurant)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 內用、堂食 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 | 內用 | 堂食 |
| Reading | ㄋㄟˋ ㄩㄥˋ nèi yòng | táng shí ㄊㄤˊ ㄕˊ |
| Senses | to eat in (at a restaurant) | to eat in (at a restaurant) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 內用 · 堂食 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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