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(telecommunications) cell broadcast · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 广播 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 細胞廣播; on the Mainland it is 小区广播 - both point at “(telecommunications) cell broadcast”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 細胞廣播、小區廣播 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 | 細胞廣播 | 小区广播 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧˋ ㄅㄠ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄅㄛ xì bāo guǎng bō | xiǎo qū guǎng bō ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄑㄩ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄅㄛ |
| Senses | (telecommunications) cell broadcast | (telecommunications) cell broadcast |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 細胞廣播 · 小區廣播 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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