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Cape Verde · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 角 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 維德角; on the Mainland it is 佛得角 - both point at “Cape Verde”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 維德角、佛得角 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 | 維德角 | 佛得角 |
| Reading | ㄨㄟˊ ㄉㄜˊ ㄐㄧㄠˇ wéi dé jiǎo | fó dé jiǎo ㄈㄛˊ ㄉㄜˊ ㄐㄧㄠˇ |
| Senses | Cape Verde | Cape Verde |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 維德角 · 佛得角 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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