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Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 象牙海岸; on the Mainland it is 科特迪瓦 - both point at “Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 象牙海岸、科特迪瓦 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 | 象牙海岸 | 科特迪瓦 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄧㄚˊ ㄏㄞˇ ㄢˋ xiàng yá hǎi àn | kē tè dí wǎ ㄎㄜ ㄊㄜˋ ㄉㄧˊ ㄨㄚˇ |
| Senses | Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa | Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 象牙海岸 · 科特迪瓦 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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