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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 蕭邦; on the Mainland it is 肖邦 - both point at “Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 蕭邦、肖邦 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 | 蕭邦 | 肖邦 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄠ ㄅㄤ xiāo bāng | xiào bāng ㄒㄧㄠˋ ㄅㄤ |
| Senses | Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer | Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 蕭邦 · 肖邦 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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