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Dolly (1996-2003), female sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 桃莉羊; on the Mainland it is 多利 - both point at “Dolly (1996-2003), female sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 桃莉羊、多利 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 | 桃莉羊 | 多利 |
| Reading | ㄊㄠˊ ㄌㄧˋ ㄧㄤˊ táo lì yáng | duō lì ㄉㄨㄛ ㄌㄧˋ |
| Senses | Dolly (1996-2003), female sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell | Dolly (1996-2003), female sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 桃莉羊 · 多利 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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