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cabbage · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 菜 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 高麗菜; on the Mainland it is 卷心菜 - both point at “cabbage”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 高麗菜、卷心菜 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: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 高麗菜 | 卷心菜 |
| Reading | ㄍㄠ ㄌㄧˋ ㄘㄞˋ gāo lì cài | juǎn xīn cài ㄐㄩㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄘㄞˋ |
| Senses | cabbage | cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:棵) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 高麗菜 · 卷心菜 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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