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character set · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 字元集; on the Mainland it is 字符集 - both point at “character set”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 字元集、字符集 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 | 字元集 | 字符集 |
| Reading | ㄗˋ ㄩㄢˊ ㄐㄧˊ zì yuán jí | zì fú jí ㄗˋ ㄈㄨˊ ㄐㄧˊ |
| Senses | character set | character set (e.g. ASCII 美國資訊交換標準碼|美国资讯交换标准码 or Unicode 統一碼|统一码) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 字元集 · 字符集 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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