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Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 大溪地; on the Mainland it is 塔希提 - both point at “Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 大溪地、塔希提 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 | 大溪地 | 塔希提 |
| Reading | ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄧ ㄉㄜ˙ dà xī de | tǎ xī tí ㄊㄚˇ ㄒㄧ ㄊㄧˊ |
| Senses | Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia | Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 大溪地 · 塔希提 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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