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virtual machine · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 虚拟机 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 虛擬機器; on the Mainland it is 虚拟机 - both point at “virtual machine”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 虛擬機器、虛擬機 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 | 虛擬機器 | 虚拟机 |
| Reading | ㄒㄩ ㄋㄧˇ ㄐㄧ ㄑㄧˋ xū nǐ jī qì | xū nǐ jī ㄒㄩ ㄋㄧˇ ㄐㄧ |
| Senses | virtual machine | virtual machine |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 虛擬機器 · 虛擬機 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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