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disco (loanword) · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 迪斯可; on the Mainland it is 迪斯科 - both point at “disco (loanword)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 迪斯可、迪斯科 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 | 迪斯可 | 迪斯科 |
| Reading | ㄉㄧˊ ㄙ ㄎㄜˇ dí sī kě | dí sī kē ㄉㄧˊ ㄙ ㄎㄜ |
| Senses | disco (loanword) | (loanword) disco |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 迪斯可 · 迪斯科 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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