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vacuole · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 液胞; on the Mainland it is 液泡 - both point at “vacuole”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 液胞、液泡 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 | 液胞 | 液泡 |
| Reading | ㄧㄝˋ ㄅㄠ yè bāo | yè pào ㄧㄝˋ ㄆㄠˋ |
| Senses | vacuole | (biology) vacuole |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 液胞 · 液泡 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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