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the Pentagon · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 五角大廈; on the Mainland it is 五角大楼 - both point at “the Pentagon”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 五角大廈、五角大樓 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 | 五角大廈 | 五角大楼 |
| Reading | ㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄠˇ ㄉㄚˋ ㄕㄚˋ wǔ jiǎo dà shà | wǔ jiǎo dà lóu ㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄠˇ ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄡˊ |
| Senses | the Pentagon | the Pentagon |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 五角大廈 · 五角大樓 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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