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AstraZeneca (British-Swedish pharmaceutical company) · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 阿斯利康 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 阿斯特捷利康; on the Mainland it is 阿斯利康 - both point at “AstraZeneca (British-Swedish pharmaceutical company)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 阿斯特捷利康、阿斯利康 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 | 阿斯特捷利康 | 阿斯利康 |
| Reading | ㄚ ㄙ ㄊㄜˋ ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄌㄧˋ ㄎㄤ ā sī tè jié lì kāng | ā sī lì kāng ㄚ ㄙ ㄌㄧˋ ㄎㄤ |
| Senses | AstraZeneca (British-Swedish pharmaceutical company) | AstraZeneca (British-Swedish pharmaceutical company) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 阿斯特捷利康 · 阿斯利康 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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