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after-school program · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 班 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 安親班; on the Mainland it is 托班 - both point at “after-school program”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 安親班、托班 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 | 安親班 | 托班 |
| Reading | ㄢ ㄑㄧㄣ ㄅㄢ ān qīn bān | tuō bān ㄊㄨㄛ ㄅㄢ |
| Senses | after-school program | after-school program |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 安親班 · 托班 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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