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Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 比索; on the Mainland it is 比绍 - both point at “Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 比索、比紹 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 | 比索 | 比绍 |
| Reading | ㄅㄧˇ ㄙㄨㄛˇ bǐ suǒ | bǐ shào ㄅㄧˇ ㄕㄠˋ |
| Senses | (loanword) peso (monetary unit) | Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 比索 · 比紹 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | |
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