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Formosa · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 福爾摩沙; on the Mainland it is 宝岛 - both point at “Formosa”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 福爾摩沙、寶島 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 | 福爾摩沙 | 宝岛 |
| Reading | ㄈㄨˊ ㄦˇ ㄇㄛˊ ㄕㄚ fú ěr mó shā | bǎo dǎo ㄅㄠˇ ㄉㄠˇ |
| Senses | Formosa | Formosa |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 福爾摩沙 · 寶島 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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