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Qatar · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 卡 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 卡達; on the Mainland it is 卡塔尔 - both point at “Qatar”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 卡達、卡塔爾 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 | 卡達 | 卡塔尔 |
| Reading | ㄎㄚˇ ㄉㄚˊ kǎ dá | kǎ tǎ ěr ㄎㄚˇ ㄊㄚˇ ㄦˇ |
| Senses | Qatar | Qatar |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 卡達 · 卡塔爾 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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