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audio and video · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 音 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 影音; on the Mainland it is 音像 - both point at “audio and video”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 影音、音像 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
音像 is HSK 6 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 影音 | 音像 |
| Reading | ㄧㄥˇ ㄧㄣ yǐng yīn | yīn xiàng ㄧㄣ ㄒㄧㄤˋ |
| Senses | (Tw) audio and video; audiovisual | audio and video; audiovisual |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 6 |
| MOE records | 影音 · 音像 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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