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Mauritania · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 塔尼亚 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 茅利塔尼亞; on the Mainland it is 毛里塔尼亚 - both point at “Mauritania”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 茅利塔尼亞、毛裏塔尼亞 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: 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 | 茅利塔尼亞 | 毛里塔尼亚 |
| Reading | ㄇㄠˊ ㄌㄧˋ ㄊㄚˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ máo lì tǎ ní yà | máo lǐ tǎ ní yà ㄇㄠˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄊㄚˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ |
| Senses | Mauritania | Mauritania |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 茅利塔尼亞 · 毛裏塔尼亞 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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