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Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 基奈; on the Mainland it is 科奈 - both point at “Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 基奈、科奈 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 | 基奈 | 科奈 |
| Reading | ㄐㄧ ㄋㄞˋ jī nài | kē nài ㄎㄜ ㄋㄞˋ |
| Senses | Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska | Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 基奈 · 科奈 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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