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arm wrestling · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 腕 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 比腕力; on the Mainland it is 掰腕子 - both point at “arm wrestling”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 比腕力、掰腕子 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 | 比腕力 | 掰腕子 |
| Reading | ㄅㄧˇ ㄨㄢˋ ㄌㄧˋ bǐ wàn lì | bāi wàn zǐ ㄅㄞ ㄨㄢˋ ㄗˇ |
| Senses | arm wrestling | arm wrestling |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 比腕力 · 掰腕子 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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