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glutamic acid · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 酸 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 麩胺酸; on the Mainland it is 谷氨酸 - both point at “glutamic acid”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 麩胺酸、谷氨酸 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 | 麩胺酸 | 谷氨酸 |
| Reading | ㄈㄨ ㄢˋ ㄙㄨㄢ fū àn suān | gǔ ān suān ㄍㄨˇ ㄢ ㄙㄨㄢ |
| Senses | glutamic acid | glutamic acid (Glu), an amino acid |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 麩胺酸 · 谷氨酸 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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