Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

軟體

ruǎntǐ

ㄖㄨㄢˇ ㄊㄧˇ

Simplified 软体 · mainland 軟件

  1. 1(of an animal) soft-bodied
  2. 2(Tw) software
In Taiwan

Software. The 體/件 split runs through computing vocabulary: Taiwan says 軟體, 硬體 and 韌體 where the mainland says 軟件, 硬件 and 固件.

Example

這套軟體要先更新才能用。

zhè tào ruǎntǐ yào xiān gēngxīn cáinéng yòng

You have to update this software before it will work.

Keep 軟體 and it comes back until you know it.

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