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clinical depression · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 憂鬱症; on the Mainland it is 抑郁症 - both point at “clinical depression”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 憂鬱症、抑鬱症 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
抑郁症 is HSK 7-9 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
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 | 憂鬱症 | 抑郁症 |
| Reading | ㄧㄡ ㄩˋ ㄓㄥˋ yōu yù zhèng | yì yù zhèng ㄧˋ ㄩˋ ㄓㄥˋ |
| Senses | (psychology) depression | clinical depression |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 憂鬱症 · 抑鬱症 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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