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Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 阿什哈巴特; on the Mainland it is 阿什哈巴德 - both point at “Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 阿什哈巴特、阿什哈巴德 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 | 阿什哈巴特 | 阿什哈巴德 |
| Reading | ㄚ ㄕㄣˊ ㄏㄚ ㄅㄚ ㄊㄜˋ ā shén hā bā tè | ā shén hā bā dé ㄚ ㄕㄣˊ ㄏㄚ ㄅㄚ ㄉㄜˊ |
| Senses | Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan | Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 阿什哈巴特 · 阿什哈巴德 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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