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(loanword) latte · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 那堤; on the Mainland it is 拿铁 - both point at “(loanword) latte”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 那堤、拿鐵 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 | 那堤 | 拿铁 |
| Reading | ㄋㄚˋ ㄉㄧ nà dī | ná tiě ㄋㄚˊ ㄊㄧㄝˇ |
| Senses | (loanword) latte | (loanword) latte |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 那堤 · 拿鐵 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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