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lysine · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 酸 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 離胺酸; on the Mainland it is 赖氨酸 - both point at “lysine”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 離胺酸、賴氨酸 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 | 離胺酸 | 赖氨酸 |
| Reading | ㄌㄧˊ ㄢˋ ㄙㄨㄢ lí àn suān | lài ān suān ㄌㄞˋ ㄢ ㄙㄨㄢ |
| Senses | lysine | lysine (Lys), an essential amino acid |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 離胺酸 · 賴氨酸 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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