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regular expression · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 正表式 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 正規表示式; on the Mainland it is 正则表达式 - both point at “regular expression”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 正規表示式、正則表達式 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 | 正規表示式 | 正则表达式 |
| Reading | ㄓㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄟ ㄅㄧㄠˇ ㄕˋ ㄕˋ zhèng guī biǎo shì shì | zhèng zé biǎo dá shì ㄓㄥˋ ㄗㄜˊ ㄅㄧㄠˇ ㄉㄚˊ ㄕˋ |
| Senses | regular expression | regular expression (computing) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 正規表示式 · 正則表達式 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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