Home/Taiwanese Mandarin/All pairs/字型 vs 字体
font · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 字型; on the Mainland it is 字体 - both point at “font”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 字型、字體 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
字体 is HSK 7-9 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 | 字型 | 字体 |
| Reading | ㄗˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ zì xíng | zì tǐ ㄗˋ ㄊㄧˇ |
| Senses | font; typeface | calligraphic style; typeface; font |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 字型 · 字體 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
Taiwan vs Mainland explorer (search all 953 pairs, random pair, MOE reading table) · every pair, A–Z · MOE standard characters · learning Mandarin for Taiwan · dictionary