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Italy · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 義大利; on the Mainland it is 意大利 - both point at “Italy”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 義大利、意大利 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: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.
| Taiwan · 台灣 | Mainland · 大陆 | |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | 義大利 | 意大利 |
| Reading | ㄧˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄧˋ yì dà lì | yì dà lì ㄧˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄧˋ |
| Senses | Italy | Italy |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 義大利 · 意大利 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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