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chikungunya fever · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 屈公病; on the Mainland it is 基孔肯雅热 - both point at “chikungunya fever”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 屈公病、基孔肯雅熱 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 | 屈公病 | 基孔肯雅热 |
| Reading | ㄑㄩ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄅㄧㄥˋ qū gōng bìng | jī kǒng kěn yǎ rè ㄐㄧ ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄎㄣˇ ㄧㄚˇ ㄖㄜˋ |
| Senses | chikungunya fever | chikungunya fever |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 屈公病 · 基孔肯雅熱 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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