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Sierra Leone · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 獅子山; on the Mainland it is 塞拉利昂 - both point at “Sierra Leone”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 獅子山、塞拉利昂 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 | 獅子山 | 塞拉利昂 |
| Reading | ㄕ ㄗˇ ㄕㄢ shī zǐ shān | sāi lā lì áng ㄙㄞ ㄌㄚ ㄌㄧˋ ㄤˊ |
| Senses | Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 獅子山 · 塞拉利昂 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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