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technology, technique

Fumiko Take

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Vietnamese
Are there any officially technical/scientific terms for "technology" and "technique"? Most online dictionaries suggest term with mixed senses, i.e. they may mean both "technology" and "technique". That's very confusing. To be clear, "technology" should be "a set/collection of techniques".
The standard word for "technology" is 技術 (gijutsu). As for "technique", I am not sure what you mean exactly. Can you elaborate on the English word?
A technique is specific job needed to perform a task. Like iron-melting technique for making iron, 180-degree angle technique for filming, screentone technique for drawing manga, etc.
I don't think Japanese really differentiate the two, and I don't think there's really a need, either. Can you provide an example where swapping the two words still results in a valid English sentence, but the meaning changed?

If you really want to be specific in Japanese, you could have 科学技術(kagakugijutsu) for "technology" (literally "scientific technique") and 技巧(gikou) for "technique" (more specifically "craftsmanship; art of ...").
I thought I did in the starting post.

Has anyone ever read to this part?
I don't get that at all. Are you looking for a plural? "skills" is "a set/collection of more than one skill", "cars" is "a set/collection of more than one car".
To me, "technology" is something very big. Information technology is something very big. "Technique" is rather small, because it's just some kind of craft. A set of crafts and a study about them would be called "technology"
Can any native Japanese speaker help us with this one?
It's a long shot but 技法 is a way of translating 'technique' necessary for achieving an artistic effect or making a product.
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