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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 格林威治標準時間; on the Mainland it is 格林尼治标准时间 - both point at “Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 格林威治標準時間、格林尼治標準時間 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 | 格林威治標準時間 | 格林尼治标准时间 |
| Reading | ㄍㄜˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄨㄟ ㄓˋ ㄅㄧㄠ ㄓㄨㄣˇ ㄕˊ ㄐㄧㄢ gé lín wēi zhì biāo zhǔn shí jiān | gé lín ní zhì biāo zhǔn shí jiān ㄍㄜˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄋㄧˊ ㄓˋ ㄅㄧㄠ ㄓㄨㄣˇ ㄕˊ ㄐㄧㄢ |
| Senses | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 格林威治標準時間 · 格林尼治標準時間 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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