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sauna (loanword) · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 三溫暖; on the Mainland it is 桑拿 - both point at “sauna (loanword)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 三溫暖、桑拿 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
桑拿 is HSK 7-9 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 三溫暖 | 桑拿 |
| Reading | ㄙㄢ ㄨㄣ ㄋㄨㄢˇ sān wēn nuǎn | sāng ná ㄙㄤ ㄋㄚˊ |
| Senses | sauna (loanword) | (loanword) sauna |
| Syllabus | — | HSK 7-9 |
| MOE records | 三溫暖 · 桑拿 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | entry → |
| Audio | — | |
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