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Caracas, capital of Venezuela · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 拉斯 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 卡拉卡斯; on the Mainland it is 加拉加斯 - both point at “Caracas, capital of Venezuela”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 卡拉卡斯、加拉加斯 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 卡拉卡斯 | 加拉加斯 |
| Reading | ㄎㄚˇ ㄌㄚ ㄎㄚˇ ㄙ kǎ lā kǎ sī | jiā lā jiā sī ㄐㄧㄚ ㄌㄚ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄙ |
| Senses | Caracas, capital of Venezuela | Caracas, capital of Venezuela |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 卡拉卡斯 · 加拉加斯 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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