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Delaware, US state · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 拉 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 德拉瓦; on the Mainland it is 特拉华 - both point at “Delaware, US state”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 德拉瓦、特拉華 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 | 德拉瓦 | 特拉华 |
| Reading | ㄉㄜˊ ㄌㄚ ㄨㄚˇ dé lā wǎ | tè lā huá ㄊㄜˋ ㄌㄚ ㄏㄨㄚˊ |
| Senses | Delaware, US state | Delaware, US state |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 德拉瓦 · 特拉華 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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