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ventricular fibrillation (V-fib), abbr. for 心室顫動|心室颤动[xin1 shi4 chan4 dong4] · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 室颤 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 心室顫動; on the Mainland it is 室颤 - both point at “ventricular fibrillation (V-fib), abbr. for 心室顫動|心室颤动[xin1 shi4 chan4 dong4]”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 心室顫動、室顫 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 | 心室顫動 | 室颤 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄣ ㄕˋ ㄔㄢˋ ㄉㄨㄥˋ xīn shì chàn dòng | shì chàn ㄕˋ ㄔㄢˋ |
| Senses | ventricular fibrillation (V-fib), abbr. for 心室顫動|心室颤动[xin1 shi4 chan4 dong4] | ventricular fibrillation (V-fib), abbr. for 心室顫動|心室颤动[xin1 shi4 chan4 dong4] |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 心室顫動 · 室顫 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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