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dementia · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 症 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 失智症; on the Mainland it is 痴呆症 - both point at “dementia”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 失智症、癡呆症 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 | 失智症 | 痴呆症 |
| Reading | ㄕ ㄓˋ ㄓㄥˋ shī zhì zhèng | chī dāi zhèng ㄔ ㄉㄞ ㄓㄥˋ |
| Senses | dementia | dementia |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 失智症 · 癡呆症 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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