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paracetamol · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 对乙基酚 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 對乙醯胺基酚; on the Mainland it is 对乙酰氨基酚 - both point at “paracetamol”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 對乙醯胺基酚、對乙酰氨基酚 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 | 對乙醯胺基酚 | 对乙酰氨基酚 |
| Reading | ㄉㄨㄟˋ ㄧˇ ㄢˋ ㄐㄧ ㄈㄣ duì yǐ àn jī fēn | duì yǐ xiān ān jī fēn ㄉㄨㄟˋ ㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄢ ㄢ ㄐㄧ ㄈㄣ |
| Senses | paracetamol | paracetamol; acetaminophen |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 對乙醯胺基酚 · 對乙酰氨基酚 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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