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irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 肠激 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 大腸激躁症; on the Mainland it is 肠易激综合征 - both point at “irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 大腸激躁症、腸易激綜合徵 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 | 大腸激躁症 | 肠易激综合征 |
| Reading | ㄉㄚˋ ㄔㄤˊ ㄐㄧ ㄗㄠˋ ㄓㄥˋ dà cháng jī zào zhèng | cháng yì jī zōng hé zhēng ㄔㄤˊ ㄧˋ ㄐㄧ ㄗㄨㄥ ㄏㄜˊ ㄓㄥ |
| Senses | irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) | irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 大腸激躁症 · 腸易激綜合徵 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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