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cheese · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 起司; on the Mainland it is 奶酪 - both point at “cheese”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 起司、奶酪 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: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 起司 | 奶酪 |
| Reading | ㄑㄧˇ ㄙ qǐ sī | nǎi lào ㄋㄞˇ ㄌㄠˋ |
| Senses | cheese | cheese |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 起司 · 奶酪 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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