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internet café · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 網咖; on the Mainland it is 网吧 - both point at “internet café”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 網咖、網吧 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
网吧 is HSK 6 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 網咖 | 网吧 |
| Reading | ㄨㄤˇ ㄎㄚ wǎng kā | wǎng bā ㄨㄤˇ ㄅㄚ |
| Senses | internet café | Internet café |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 6 |
| MOE records | 網咖 · 網吧 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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