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to modulate · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 調變; on the Mainland it is 调制 - both point at “to modulate”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 調變、調制 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 | 調變 | 调制 |
| Reading | ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ diào biàn | tiáo zhì ㄊㄧㄠˊ ㄓˋ |
| Senses | to modulate | to modulate; modulation |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 調變 · 調制 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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