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Suriname · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 蘇利南; on the Mainland it is 苏里南 - both point at “Suriname”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 蘇利南、蘇裏南 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 | 蘇利南 | 苏里南 |
| Reading | ㄙㄨ ㄌㄧˋ ㄋㄢˊ sū lì nán | sū lǐ nán ㄙㄨ ㄌㄧˇ ㄋㄢˊ |
| Senses | Suriname | Suriname |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 蘇利南 · 蘇裏南 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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