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Alzheimer's disease · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 阿海默氏症 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 阿茲海默氏症; on the Mainland it is 阿尔茨海默氏症 - both point at “Alzheimer's disease”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 阿茲海默氏症、阿爾茨海默氏症 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 | 阿茲海默氏症 | 阿尔茨海默氏症 |
| Reading | ㄚ ㄗ ㄏㄞˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄕˋ ㄓㄥˋ ā zī hǎi mò shì zhèng | ā ěr cí hǎi mò shì zhèng ㄚ ㄦˇ ㄘˊ ㄏㄞˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄕˋ ㄓㄥˋ |
| Senses | Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's disease |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 阿茲海默氏症 · 阿爾茨海默氏症 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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