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Northern Mariana Islands · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 北马纳 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 北馬利安納; on the Mainland it is 北马里亚纳 - both point at “Northern Mariana Islands”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 北馬利安納、北馬裏亞納 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 | 北馬利安納 | 北马里亚纳 |
| Reading | ㄅㄟˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄧˋ ㄢ ㄋㄚˋ běi mǎ lì ān nà | běi mǎ lǐ yà nà ㄅㄟˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄧㄚˋ ㄋㄚˋ |
| Senses | Northern Mariana Islands | Northern Mariana Islands |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 北馬利安納 · 北馬裏亞納 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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