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Trinidad and Tobago · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 达巴哥 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 千里達及托巴哥; on the Mainland it is 特立尼达和多巴哥 - both point at “Trinidad and Tobago”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 千里達及托巴哥、特立尼達和多巴哥 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 | 千里達及托巴哥 | 特立尼达和多巴哥 |
| Reading | ㄑㄧㄢ ㄌㄧˇ ㄉㄚˊ ㄐㄧˊ ㄊㄨㄛ ㄅㄚ ㄍㄜ qiān lǐ dá jí tuō bā gē | tè lì ní dá hé duō bā gē ㄊㄜˋ ㄌㄧˋ ㄋㄧˊ ㄉㄚˊ ㄏㄜˊ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄅㄚ ㄍㄜ |
| Senses | Trinidad and Tobago | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 千里達及托巴哥 · 特立尼達和多巴哥 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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