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Kiribati · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 吉里巴斯; on the Mainland it is 基里巴斯 - both point at “Kiribati”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 吉里巴斯、基裏巴斯 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 | 吉里巴斯 | 基里巴斯 |
| Reading | ㄐㄧˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄅㄚ ㄙ jí lǐ bā sī | jī lǐ bā sī ㄐㄧ ㄌㄧˇ ㄅㄚ ㄙ |
| Senses | Kiribati | Kiribati |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 吉里巴斯 · 基裏巴斯 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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