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sweet potato · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 地瓜; on the Mainland it is 红薯 - both point at “sweet potato”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 地瓜、紅薯 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
红薯 is HSK 7-9 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 地瓜 | 红薯 |
| Reading | ㄉㄧˋ ㄍㄨㄚ dì guā | hóng shǔ ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄕㄨˇ |
| Senses | sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas); yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus); (TCM) digua fig (Ficus tikoua Bur.) | sweet potato |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 地瓜 · 紅薯 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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