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portable hard drive · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 动硬 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 行動硬碟; on the Mainland it is 移动硬盘 - both point at “portable hard drive”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 行動硬碟、移動硬盤 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 | 行動硬碟 | 移动硬盘 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄧㄥˋ ㄉㄧㄝˊ xíng dòng yìng dié | yí dòng yìng pán ㄧˊ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄧㄥˋ ㄆㄢˊ |
| Senses | portable hard drive | portable hard drive |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 行動硬碟 · 移動硬盤 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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