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Niger (country in West Africa) · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 尼日 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 尼日; on the Mainland it is 尼日尔 - both point at “Niger (country in West Africa)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 尼日、尼日爾 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: 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 | 尼日 | 尼日尔 |
| Reading | ㄋㄧˊ ㄖˋ ní rì | ní rì ěr ㄋㄧˊ ㄖˋ ㄦˇ |
| Senses | Niger (country in West Africa) | Niger (country in West Africa) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 尼日 · 尼日爾 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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