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serine (Ser), an amino acid · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 絲胺酸; on the Mainland it is 丝氨酸 - both point at “serine (Ser), an amino acid”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 絲胺酸、絲氨酸 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.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 絲胺酸 | 丝氨酸 |
| Reading | ㄙ ㄢˋ ㄙㄨㄢ sī àn suān | sī ān suān ㄙ ㄢ ㄙㄨㄢ |
| Senses | serine (Ser), an amino acid | serine (Ser), an amino acid |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 絲胺酸 · 絲氨酸 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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