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Tuvalu · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 瓦 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 吐瓦魯; on the Mainland it is 图瓦卢 - both point at “Tuvalu”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 吐瓦魯、圖瓦盧 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 | 吐瓦魯 | 图瓦卢 |
| Reading | ㄊㄨˇ ㄨㄚˇ ㄌㄨˇ tǔ wǎ lǔ | tú wǎ lú ㄊㄨˊ ㄨㄚˇ ㄌㄨˊ |
| Senses | Tuvalu | Tuvalu |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 吐瓦魯 · 圖瓦盧 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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