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user · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 用 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 使用者; on the Mainland it is 用户 - both point at “user”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 使用者、用戶 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
用户 is HSK 5 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
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 | 用户 |
| Reading | ㄕˇ ㄩㄥˋ ㄓㄜˇ shǐ yòng zhě | yòng hù ㄩㄥˋ ㄏㄨˋ |
| Senses | (Tw) user | user; consumer; subscriber |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 5 |
| MOE records | 使用者 · 用戶 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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