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wildcard character · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 萬用字元; on the Mainland it is 通配符 - both point at “wildcard character”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 萬用字元、通配符 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 | 萬用字元 | 通配符 |
| Reading | ㄨㄢˋ ㄩㄥˋ ㄗˋ ㄩㄢˊ wàn yòng zì yuán | tōng pèi fú ㄊㄨㄥ ㄆㄟˋ ㄈㄨˊ |
| Senses | wildcard character | wildcard character (computing) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 萬用字元 · 通配符 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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