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Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 可倫坡; on the Mainland it is 科伦坡 - both point at “Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 可倫坡、科倫坡 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 | 可倫坡 | 科伦坡 |
| Reading | ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄨㄣˊ ㄆㄛ kě lún pō | kē lún pō ㄎㄜ ㄌㄨㄣˊ ㄆㄛ |
| Senses | Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka | Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 可倫坡 · 科倫坡 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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