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severance pay · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 遣费 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 資遣費; on the Mainland it is 遣散费 - both point at “severance pay”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 資遣費、遣散費 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 | 資遣費 | 遣散费 |
| Reading | ㄗ ㄑㄧㄢˇ ㄈㄟˋ zī qiǎn fèi | qiǎn sàn fèi ㄑㄧㄢˇ ㄙㄢˋ ㄈㄟˋ |
| Senses | severance pay | severance pay |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 資遣費 · 遣散費 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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