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positron · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 正子 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 正子; on the Mainland it is 正电子 - both point at “positron”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 正子、正電子 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 | 正子 | 正电子 |
| Reading | ㄓㄥˋ ㄗˇ zhèng zǐ | zhèng diàn zǐ ㄓㄥˋ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄗˇ |
| Senses | positron | positron (antiparticle of the electron) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 正子 · 正電子 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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