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Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 拉 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 塞拉耶佛; on the Mainland it is 萨拉热窝 - both point at “Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 塞拉耶佛、薩拉熱窩 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 | 塞拉耶佛 | 萨拉热窝 |
| Reading | ㄙㄞ ㄌㄚ ㄧㄝˊ ㄈㄛˊ sāi lā yé fó | sà lā rè wō ㄙㄚˋ ㄌㄚ ㄖㄜˋ ㄨㄛ |
| Senses | Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 塞拉耶佛 · 薩拉熱窩 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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