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Iowa, US state · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 愛荷華; on the Mainland it is 艾奥瓦 - both point at “Iowa, US state”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 愛荷華、艾奧瓦 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 | 愛荷華 | 艾奥瓦 |
| Reading | ㄞˋ ㄏㄜˊ ㄏㄨㄚˊ ài hé huá | ài ào wǎ ㄞˋ ㄠˋ ㄨㄚˇ |
| Senses | Iowa, US state | Iowa, US state |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 愛荷華 · 艾奧瓦 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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