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World Wide Web · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 网 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 全球資訊網; on the Mainland it is 万维网 - both point at “World Wide Web”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 全球資訊網、萬維網 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 | 全球資訊網 | 万维网 |
| Reading | ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄑㄧㄡˊ ㄗ ㄒㄩㄣˋ ㄨㄤˇ quán qiú zī xùn wǎng | wàn wéi wǎng ㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄨㄤˇ |
| Senses | World Wide Web | World Wide Web |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 全球資訊網 · 萬維網 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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