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South Carolina, US state · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 南卡羅萊納; on the Mainland it is 南卡罗来纳 - both point at “South Carolina, US state”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 南卡羅萊納、南卡羅來納 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 | 南卡羅萊納 | 南卡罗来纳 |
| Reading | ㄋㄢˊ ㄎㄚˇ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄌㄞˊ ㄋㄚˋ nán kǎ luó lái nà | nán kǎ luó lái nà ㄋㄢˊ ㄎㄚˇ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄌㄞˊ ㄋㄚˋ |
| Senses | South Carolina, US state | South Carolina, US state |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 南卡羅萊納 · 南卡羅來納 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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