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white blood cell · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 白 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 白血球; on the Mainland it is 白细胞 - both point at “white blood cell”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 白血球、白細胞 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 | 白血球 | 白细胞 |
| Reading | ㄅㄞˊ ㄒㄩㄝˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ bái xuè qiú | bái xì bāo ㄅㄞˊ ㄒㄧˋ ㄅㄠ |
| Senses | white blood cell; leukocyte | white blood cell; leukocyte |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 白血球 · 白細胞 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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