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L'Oréal (French cosmetics company) · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 莱雅 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 萊雅; on the Mainland it is 欧莱雅 - both point at “L'Oréal (French cosmetics company)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 萊雅、歐萊雅 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 | 萊雅 | 欧莱雅 |
| Reading | ㄌㄞˊ ㄧㄚˇ lái yǎ | ōu lái yǎ ㄡ ㄌㄞˊ ㄧㄚˇ |
| Senses | L'Oréal (French cosmetics company) | L'Oréal (French cosmetics company) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 萊雅 · 歐萊雅 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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