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Brunei · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 汶萊; on the Mainland it is 文莱 - both point at “Brunei”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 汶萊、文萊 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 | 汶萊 | 文莱 |
| Reading | ㄌㄞˊ lái | wén lái ㄨㄣˊ ㄌㄞˊ |
| Senses | Brunei | Brunei |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 汶萊 · 文萊 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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