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senile dementia · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 老年症 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 老年失智症; on the Mainland it is 老年性痴呆症 - both point at “senile dementia”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 老年失智症、老年性癡呆症 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 | 老年失智症 | 老年性痴呆症 |
| Reading | ㄌㄠˇ ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄕ ㄓˋ ㄓㄥˋ lǎo nián shī zhì zhèng | lǎo nián xìng chī dāi zhèng ㄌㄠˇ ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄔ ㄉㄞ ㄓㄥˋ |
| Senses | senile dementia | senile dementia |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 老年失智症 · 老年性癡呆症 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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