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Gothic · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 哥 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 哥德; on the Mainland it is 哥特式 - both point at “Gothic”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 哥德、哥特式 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 | 哥德 | 哥特式 |
| Reading | ㄍㄜ ㄉㄜˊ gē dé | gē tè shì ㄍㄜ ㄊㄜˋ ㄕˋ |
| Senses | Gothic | Gothic (style in architecture, art, literature etc) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 哥德 · 哥特式 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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