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to cycle · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 迴圈; on the Mainland it is 循环 - both point at “to cycle”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 迴圈、循環 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
循环 is HSK 6 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 | 迴圈 | 循环 |
| Reading | ㄏㄨㄟˊ ㄑㄩㄢ huí quān | xún huán ㄒㄩㄣˊ ㄏㄨㄢˊ |
| Senses | to cycle | to cycle; to circulate; circle |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 6 |
| MOE records | 迴圈 · 循環 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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