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Zambia · Preferred written form
Preferred written form The two preferred forms differ by a single character. In Taiwan the standard term is 尚比亞; on the Mainland it is 赞比亚 - both point at “Zambia”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 尚比亞、贊比亞 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 | 尚比亞 | 赞比亚 |
| Reading | ㄕㄤˋ ㄅㄧˇ ㄧㄚˋ shàng bǐ yà | zàn bǐ yà ㄗㄢˋ ㄅㄧˇ ㄧㄚˋ |
| Senses | Zambia | Zambia |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 尚比亞 · 贊比亞 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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