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potato · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 馬鈴薯; on the Mainland it is 土豆 - both point at “potato”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 洋芋、山藥蛋、馬鈴薯、土豆 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.
馬鈴薯 is L5 vocabulary on the TOCFL 华语八千词 list; 土豆 is HSK 5 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.
Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 馬鈴薯 | 土豆 |
| Reading | ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄨˇ mǎ líng shǔ | tǔ dòu ㄊㄨˇ ㄉㄡˋ |
| Senses | potato | potato; (Tw) peanut (CL:顆|颗) |
| Syllabus | TOCFL L5 | HSK 5 |
| MOE records | 洋芋 · 山藥蛋 · 馬鈴薯 · 土豆 | |
| Dictionary | entry → | entry → |
| Audio | ||
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