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to implement · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 執行; on the Mainland it is 运行 - both point at “to implement”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 執行、運行 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
執行 is L4 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 运行 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 | 執行 | 运行 |
| Reading | ㄓˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ zhí xíng | yùn xíng ㄩㄣˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ |
| Senses | to implement; to carry out; to execute | (of celestial bodies etc) to move along one's course; (fig.) to function; to be in operation; (of a train service etc) to operate; to run |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L4 | HSK 5 |
| MOE records | 執行 · 運行 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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