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myocardial infarction · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 心梗 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 心肌梗塞; on the Mainland it is 心梗 - both point at “myocardial infarction”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 心肌梗塞、心梗 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 | 心肌梗塞 | 心梗 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄧ ㄍㄥˇ ㄙㄜˋ xīn jī gěng sè | xīn gěng ㄒㄧㄣ ㄍㄥˇ |
| Senses | (Tw) myocardial infarction; heart attack | myocardial infarction; heart attack (abbr. for 心肌梗死) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 心肌梗塞 · 心梗 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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