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the Maldives · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 馬爾地夫; on the Mainland it is 马尔代夫 - both point at “the Maldives”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 馬爾地夫、馬爾代夫 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 | 馬爾地夫 | 马尔代夫 |
| Reading | ㄇㄚˇ ㄦˇ ㄉㄜ˙ ㄈㄨ mǎ ěr de fū | mǎ ěr dài fū ㄇㄚˇ ㄦˇ ㄉㄞˋ ㄈㄨ |
| Senses | the Maldives | the Maldives |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 馬爾地夫 · 馬爾代夫 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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