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Ecuador · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 厄瓜多 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 厄瓜多; on the Mainland it is 厄瓜多尔 - both point at “Ecuador”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 厄瓜多、厄瓜多爾 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 | 厄瓜多 | 厄瓜多尔 |
| Reading | ㄜˋ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄉㄨㄛ è guā duō | è guā duō ěr ㄜˋ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄦˇ |
| Senses | Ecuador | Ecuador |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 厄瓜多 · 厄瓜多爾 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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