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Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 兰 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 史瓦濟蘭; on the Mainland it is 斯威士兰 - both point at “Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 史瓦濟蘭、斯威士蘭 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 | 史瓦濟蘭 | 斯威士兰 |
| Reading | ㄕˇ ㄨㄚˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄌㄢˊ shǐ wǎ jì lán | sī wēi shì lán ㄙ ㄨㄟ ㄕˋ ㄌㄢˊ |
| Senses | Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) | Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 史瓦濟蘭 · 斯威士蘭 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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