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row house · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 透天厝; on the Mainland it is 排屋 - both point at “row house”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 透天厝、排屋 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 | 透天厝 | 排屋 |
| Reading | ㄊㄡˋ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄘㄨㄛˋ tòu tiān cuò | pái wū ㄆㄞˊ ㄨ |
| Senses | row house | row house |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 透天厝 · 排屋 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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