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Kenya · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 肯亚 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 肯亞; on the Mainland it is 肯尼亚 - both point at “Kenya”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 肯亞、肯尼亞 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 | 肯亞 | 肯尼亚 |
| Reading | ㄎㄣˇ ㄧㄚˋ kěn yà | kěn ní yà ㄎㄣˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ |
| Senses | Kenya | Kenya |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 肯亞 · 肯尼亞 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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