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mobile device · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 动 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 行動裝置; on the Mainland it is 移动设备 - both point at “mobile device”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 行動裝置、移動設備 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 行動裝置 | 移动设备 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄓㄨㄤ ㄓˋ xíng dòng zhuāng zhì | yí dòng shè bèi ㄧˊ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄕㄜˋ ㄅㄟˋ |
| Senses | mobile device | mobile device |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 行動裝置 · 移動設備 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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