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computer chip · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 晶片; on the Mainland it is 芯片 - both point at “computer chip”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 晶片、芯片 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
芯片 is HSK 7-9 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 | 晶片 | 芯片 |
| Reading | ㄐㄧㄥ ㄆㄧㄢˋ jīng piàn | xīn piàn ㄒㄧㄣ ㄆㄧㄢˋ |
| Senses | (Tw) (computing) chip | computer chip; microchip |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 晶片 · 芯片 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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