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questions from previous years' exams · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 题 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 考古題; on the Mainland it is 真题 - both point at “questions from previous years' exams”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 考古題、真題 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 考古題 | 真题 |
| Reading | ㄎㄠˇ ㄍㄨˇ ㄊㄧˊ kǎo gǔ tí | zhēn tí ㄓㄣ ㄊㄧˊ |
| Senses | questions from previous years' exams | questions from previous years' exams |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 考古題 · 真題 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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