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chief executive officer (CEO) · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 执行 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 執行長; on the Mainland it is 首席执行官 - both point at “chief executive officer (CEO)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 執行長、首席執行官 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 | 執行長 | 首席执行官 |
| Reading | ㄓˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄓㄤˇ zhí xíng zhǎng | shǒu xí zhí xíng guān ㄕㄡˇ ㄒㄧˊ ㄓˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄢ |
| Senses | (Tw) chief executive | chief executive officer (CEO) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 執行長 · 首席執行官 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | |
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