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cucumber · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 黄瓜 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 小黃瓜; on the Mainland it is 黄瓜 - both point at “cucumber”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 小黃瓜、黃瓜 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
黄瓜 is HSK 4 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 | 小黃瓜 | 黄瓜 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄍㄨㄚ xiǎo huáng guā | huáng guā ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄍㄨㄚ |
| Senses | cucumber | cucumber |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 4 |
| MOE records | 小黃瓜 · 黃瓜 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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