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to stick (to sth) · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 沾黏; on the Mainland it is 贴 - both point at “to stick (to sth)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 沾黏、貼 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
贴 is HSK 4 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 沾黏 | 贴 |
| Reading | ㄓㄢ ㄋㄧㄢˊ zhān nián | tiē ㄊㄧㄝ |
| Senses | to stick (to sth) | to stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog) |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 4 |
| MOE records | 沾黏 · 貼 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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