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Tanzania · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 坦尚尼亞; on the Mainland it is 坦桑尼亚 - both point at “Tanzania”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 坦尚尼亞、坦桑尼亞 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 | 坦尚尼亞 | 坦桑尼亚 |
| Reading | ㄊㄢˇ ㄕㄤˋ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ tǎn shàng ní yà | tǎn sāng ní yà ㄊㄢˇ ㄙㄤ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ |
| Senses | Tanzania | Tanzania |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 坦尚尼亞 · 坦桑尼亞 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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