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poison pen letter · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 黑函; on the Mainland it is 黑帖 - both point at “poison pen letter”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 黑函、黑帖 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 | 黑函 | 黑帖 |
| Reading | ㄏㄟ ㄏㄢˊ hēi hán | hēi tiē ㄏㄟ ㄊㄧㄝ |
| Senses | poison pen letter | poison pen letter |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 黑函 · 黑帖 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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