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Botswana · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 波札那; on the Mainland it is 博茨瓦纳 - both point at “Botswana”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 波札那、博茨瓦納 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 | 波札那 | 博茨瓦纳 |
| Reading | ㄅㄛ ㄓㄚˊ ㄋㄚˋ bō zhá nà | bó cí wǎ nà ㄅㄛˊ ㄘˊ ㄨㄚˇ ㄋㄚˋ |
| Senses | Botswana | Botswana |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 波札那 · 博茨瓦納 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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