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string · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 字串 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 字串; on the Mainland it is 字符串 - both point at “string”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 字串、字符串 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 | 字串 | 字符串 |
| Reading | ㄗˋ ㄔㄨㄢˋ zì chuàn | zì fú chuàn ㄗˋ ㄈㄨˊ ㄔㄨㄢˋ |
| Senses | string | string (computing) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 字串 · 字符串 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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