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excavator · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 怪手; on the Mainland it is 挖掘机 - both point at “excavator”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 怪手、挖掘機 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 | 怪手 | 挖掘机 |
| Reading | ㄍㄨㄞˋ ㄕㄡˇ guài shǒu | wā jué jī ㄨㄚ ㄐㄩㄝˊ ㄐㄧ |
| Senses | excavator | excavator; excavating machine |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 怪手 · 挖掘機 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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