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missile · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 飛彈; on the Mainland it is 导弹 - both point at “missile”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 飛彈、導彈 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
飛彈 is L5 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 导弹 is HSK 7-9 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 飛彈 | 导弹 |
| Reading | ㄈㄟ ㄉㄢˋ fēi dàn | dǎo dàn ㄉㄠˇ ㄉㄢˋ |
| Senses | (Tw) missile; stray bullet | (guided) missile |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L5 | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 飛彈 · 導彈 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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