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RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 尼号 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 鐵達尼號; on the Mainland it is 泰坦尼克号 - both point at “RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 鐵達尼號、泰坦尼克號 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 | 鐵達尼號 | 泰坦尼克号 |
| Reading | ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄉㄚˊ ㄋㄧˊ ㄏㄠˋ tiě dá ní hào | tài tǎn ní kè hào ㄊㄞˋ ㄊㄢˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄎㄜˋ ㄏㄠˋ |
| Senses | RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 | RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 鐵達尼號 · 泰坦尼克號 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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