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Montreal, city in Quebec, Canada · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 蒙特 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 蒙特婁; on the Mainland it is 蒙特利尔 - both point at “Montreal, city in Quebec, Canada”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 蒙特婁、蒙特利爾 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 | 蒙特婁 | 蒙特利尔 |
| Reading | ㄇㄥ ㄊㄜˋ ㄌㄡˊ mēng tè lóu | mēng tè lì ěr ㄇㄥ ㄊㄜˋ ㄌㄧˋ ㄦˇ |
| Senses | Montreal, city in Quebec, Canada | Montreal, city in Quebec, Canada |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 蒙特婁 · 蒙特利爾 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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