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Oklahoma, US state · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 克拉马 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 奧克拉荷馬; on the Mainland it is 俄克拉何马 - both point at “Oklahoma, US state”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 奧克拉荷馬、俄克拉何馬 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 | 奧克拉荷馬 | 俄克拉何马 |
| Reading | ㄠˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄌㄚ ㄏㄜˊ ㄇㄚˇ ào kè lā hé mǎ | é kè lā hé mǎ ㄜˊ ㄎㄜˋ ㄌㄚ ㄏㄜˊ ㄇㄚˇ |
| Senses | Oklahoma, US state | Oklahoma, US state |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 奧克拉荷馬 · 俄克拉何馬 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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