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sustainable city · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 城市 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 永續城市; on the Mainland it is 生态城市 - both point at “sustainable city”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 永續城市、生態城市 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 | 永續城市 | 生态城市 |
| Reading | ㄩㄥˇ ㄒㄩˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄕˋ yǒng xù chéng shì | shēng tài chéng shì ㄕㄥ ㄊㄞˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄕˋ |
| Senses | sustainable city | sustainable city |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 永續城市 · 生態城市 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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