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Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 萬那杜; on the Mainland it is 瓦努阿图 - both point at “Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 萬那杜、瓦努阿圖 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 | 萬那杜 | 瓦努阿图 |
| Reading | ㄨㄢˋ ㄋㄚˋ ㄉㄨˋ wàn nà dù | wǎ nǔ ā tú ㄨㄚˇ ㄋㄨˇ ㄚ ㄊㄨˊ |
| Senses | Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean | Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 萬那杜 · 瓦努阿圖 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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