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脯胺酸 vs 脯氨酸

proline (Pro), an amino acid · Preferred written form

台灣 · Taiwan
脯胺酸 ㄆㄨˊ ㄢˋ ㄙㄨㄢ · pú àn suān
vs
大陆 · Mainland
脯氨酸 pú ān suān · ㄆㄨˊ ㄢ ㄙㄨㄢ

What differs, and by how much

Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 脯胺酸; on the Mainland it is 脯氨酸 - both point at “proline (Pro), an amino acid”.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 脯胺酸、脯氨酸 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.

Side by side

Taiwan · 台灣Mainland · 大陆
Written form 脯胺酸 脯氨酸
Reading ㄆㄨˊ ㄢˋ ㄙㄨㄢ pú àn suān pú ān suān ㄆㄨˊ ㄢ ㄙㄨㄢ
Senses proline (Pro), an amino acid proline (Pro), an amino acid
Syllabus — —
MOE records 脯胺酸 · 脯氨酸
Dictionary not in the LinZi dictionary not in the LinZi dictionary
Audio — —

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