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gross national product · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 国民生产 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 國民生產毛額; on the Mainland it is 国民生产总值 - both point at “gross national product”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 國民生產毛額、國民生產總值 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 | 國民生產毛額 | 国民生产总值 |
| Reading | ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄕㄥ ㄔㄢˇ ㄇㄠˊ ㄜˊ guó mín shēng chǎn máo é | guó mín shēng chǎn zǒng zhí ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄕㄥ ㄔㄢˇ ㄗㄨㄥˇ ㄓˊ |
| Senses | gross national product | gross national product |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 國民生產毛額 · 國民生產總值 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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