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(international or national) Olympic Committee · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 奥会 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 奧會; on the Mainland it is 奥委会 - both point at “(international or national) Olympic Committee”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 奧會、奧委會 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 奧會 | 奥委会 |
| Reading | ㄠˋ ㄏㄨㄟˋ ào huì | ào wěi huì ㄠˋ ㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄟˋ |
| Senses | (international or national) Olympic Committee | (international or national) Olympic Committee |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 奧會 · 奧委會 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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