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Michigan, US state · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 密西根; on the Mainland it is 密歇根 - both point at “Michigan, US state”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 密西根、密歇根 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 | 密西根 | 密歇根 |
| Reading | ㄇㄧˋ ㄒㄧ ㄍㄣ mì xī gēn | mì xiē gēn ㄇㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄝ ㄍㄣ |
| Senses | Michigan, US state | Michigan, US state |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 密西根 · 密歇根 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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