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Costa Rica · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 哥斯大黎加; on the Mainland it is 哥斯达黎加 - both point at “Costa Rica”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 哥斯大黎加、哥斯達黎加 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 | 哥斯大黎加 | 哥斯达黎加 |
| Reading | ㄍㄜ ㄙ ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄧˊ ㄐㄧㄚ gē sī dà lí jiā | gē sī dá lí jiā ㄍㄜ ㄙ ㄉㄚˊ ㄌㄧˊ ㄐㄧㄚ |
| Senses | Costa Rica | Costa Rica |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 哥斯大黎加 · 哥斯達黎加 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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