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Weimar, Germany · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 威瑪; on the Mainland it is 魏玛 - both point at “Weimar, Germany”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 威瑪、魏瑪 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: CC-CEDICT, which tags the Taiwan form as Taiwan usage.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 威瑪 | 魏玛 |
| Reading | ㄨㄟ ㄇㄚˇ wēi mǎ | wèi mǎ ㄨㄟˋ ㄇㄚˇ |
| Senses | Weimar, Germany | Weimar, Germany |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 威瑪 · 魏瑪 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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