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(telecommunications) channel · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 通道; on the Mainland it is 信道 - both point at “(telecommunications) channel”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 通道、信道 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 | 通道 | 信道 |
| Reading | ㄊㄨㄥ ㄉㄠˋ tōng dào | xìn dào ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄉㄠˋ |
| Senses | (communications) channel; thoroughfare; passage | (telecommunications) channel; (in Confucian texts) to believe in the principles of wisdom and follow them |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 通道 · 信道 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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