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New Hampshire, US state · Different wording
Different wording The two terms share 新罕布 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 新罕布夏; on the Mainland it is 新罕布什尔 - both point at “New Hampshire, US state”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 新罕布夏、新罕布什爾 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 | 新罕布夏 | 新罕布什尔 |
| Reading | ㄒㄧㄣ ㄏㄢˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄚˋ xīn hǎn bù xià | xīn hǎn bù shén ěr ㄒㄧㄣ ㄏㄢˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄣˊ ㄦˇ |
| Senses | New Hampshire, US state | New Hampshire, US state |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 新罕布夏 · 新罕布什爾 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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