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signal · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 訊號; on the Mainland it is 信号 - both point at “signal”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 訊號、信號 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
信号 is HSK 2 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
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 | 訊號 | 信号 |
| Reading | ㄒㄩㄣˋ ㄏㄠˋ xùn hào | xìn hào ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄏㄠˋ |
| Senses | signal | signal |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 2 |
| MOE records | 訊號 · 信號 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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