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black-crowned night heron · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 暗光鳥; on the Mainland it is 夜鹭 - both point at “black-crowned night heron”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 暗光鳥、夜鷺 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 | 暗光鳥 | 夜鹭 |
| Reading | ㄢˋ ㄍㄨㄤ ㄋㄧㄠˇ àn guāng niǎo | yè lù ㄧㄝˋ ㄌㄨˋ |
| Senses | black-crowned night heron | black-crowned night heron |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 暗光鳥 · 夜鷺 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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