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username · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 用名 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 使用者名稱; on the Mainland it is 用户名 - both point at “username”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 使用者名稱、用戶名 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 | 使用者名稱 | 用户名 |
| Reading | ㄕˇ ㄩㄥˋ ㄓㄜˇ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄔㄥ shǐ yòng zhě míng chēng | yòng hù míng ㄩㄥˋ ㄏㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ |
| Senses | username | username; user ID |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 使用者名稱 · 用戶名 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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