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Malawi · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 馬拉威; on the Mainland it is 马拉维 - both point at “Malawi”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 馬拉威、馬拉維 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 | 馬拉威 | 马拉维 |
| Reading | ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄚ ㄨㄟ mǎ lā wēi | mǎ lā wéi ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄚ ㄨㄟˊ |
| Senses | Malawi | Malawi |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 馬拉威 · 馬拉維 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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