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hard drive · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 硬碟; on the Mainland it is 硬盘 - both point at “hard drive”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 硬碟、硬盤 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
硬盘 is HSK 7-9 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 硬碟 | 硬盘 |
| Reading | ㄧㄥˋ ㄉㄧㄝˊ yìng dié | yìng pán ㄧㄥˋ ㄆㄢˊ |
| Senses | hard drive | hard disk |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 硬碟 · 硬盤 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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