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wisdom · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 智慧; on the Mainland it is 智能 - both point at “wisdom”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 智慧、智能 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
智慧 is L3 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 智能 is HSK 4 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 | 智慧 | 智能 |
| Reading | ㄓˋ ㄏㄨㄟˋ zhì huì | zhì néng ㄓˋ ㄋㄥˊ |
| Senses | wisdom; intelligence | intelligent; able; smart (phone, system, bomb etc) |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L3 | HSK 4 |
| MOE records | 智慧 · 智能 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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