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aircraft carrier · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 航艦; on the Mainland it is 航母 - both point at “aircraft carrier”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 航艦、航母 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 | 航艦 | 航母 |
| Reading | ㄏㄤˊ ㄐㄧㄢˋ háng jiàn | háng mǔ ㄏㄤˊ ㄇㄨˇ |
| Senses | aircraft carrier | aircraft carrier (abbr. for 航空母艦|航空母舰) (航空母艦|航空母舰 · aircraft carrier (CL:艘)) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 航艦 · 航母 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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