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bounced check · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 票 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 芭樂票; on the Mainland it is 空头支票 - both point at “bounced check”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 芭樂票、空頭支票 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 | 芭樂票 | 空头支票 |
| Reading | ㄅㄚ ㄌㄜˋ ㄆㄧㄠˋ bā lè piào | kōng tóu zhī piào ㄎㄨㄥ ㄊㄡˊ ㄓ ㄆㄧㄠˋ |
| Senses | bounced check | bounced check; bad check; (idiom) empty promise |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 芭樂票 · 空頭支票 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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