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erythrocyte · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 红 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 紅血球; on the Mainland it is 红细胞 - both point at “erythrocyte”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 紅血球、紅細胞 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 | 紅血球 | 红细胞 |
| Reading | ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄩㄝˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ hóng xuè qiú | hóng xì bāo ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄧˋ ㄅㄠ |
| Senses | erythrocyte; red blood cell | erythrocyte; red blood cell |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 紅血球 · 紅細胞 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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