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Cyprus · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 塞斯 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 塞普勒斯; on the Mainland it is 塞浦路斯 - both point at “Cyprus”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 塞普勒斯、塞浦路斯 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 | 塞普勒斯 | 塞浦路斯 |
| Reading | ㄙㄞ ㄆㄨˇ ㄌㄟ ㄙ sāi pǔ lēi sī | sāi pǔ lù sī ㄙㄞ ㄆㄨˇ ㄌㄨˋ ㄙ |
| Senses | Cyprus | Cyprus |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 塞普勒斯 · 塞浦路斯 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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