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Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 德布西; on the Mainland it is 德彪西 - both point at “Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 德布西、德彪西 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 | 德布西 | 德彪西 |
| Reading | ㄉㄜˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧ dé bù xī | dé biāo xī ㄉㄜˊ ㄅㄧㄠ ㄒㄧ |
| Senses | Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer | Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 德布西 · 德彪西 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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