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dioxin · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 戴奧辛; on the Mainland it is 二恶英 - both point at “dioxin”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 戴奧辛、二惡英 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 | 戴奧辛 | 二恶英 |
| Reading | ㄉㄞˋ ㄠˋ ㄒㄧㄣ dài ào xīn | èr è yīng ㄦˋ ㄜˋ ㄧㄥ |
| Senses | dioxin | dioxin |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 戴奧辛 · 二惡英 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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