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mayonnaise (loanword) · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 美乃滋; on the Mainland it is 蛋黄酱 - both point at “mayonnaise (loanword)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 美乃滋、蛋黃醬 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 | 美乃滋 | 蛋黄酱 |
| Reading | ㄇㄟˇ ㄋㄞˇ ㄗ měi nǎi zī | dàn huáng jiàng ㄉㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄐㄧㄤˋ |
| Senses | mayonnaise (loanword) | mayonnaise (loanword) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 美乃滋 · 蛋黃醬 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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