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terrorist attack · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 恐 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 恐攻; on the Mainland it is 恐怖袭击 - both point at “terrorist attack”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 恐攻、恐怖襲擊 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 | 恐攻 | 恐怖袭击 |
| Reading | ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄍㄨㄥ kǒng gōng | kǒng bù xí jī ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧˊ ㄐㄧ |
| Senses | terrorist attack | terrorist attack |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 恐攻 · 恐怖襲擊 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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