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source code · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 码 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 原始碼; on the Mainland it is 源代码 - both point at “source code”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 原始碼、源代碼 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 | 原始碼 | 源代码 |
| Reading | ㄩㄢˊ ㄕˇ ㄇㄚˇ yuán shǐ mǎ | yuán dài mǎ ㄩㄢˊ ㄉㄞˋ ㄇㄚˇ |
| Senses | source code | source code (computing) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 原始碼 · 源代碼 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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