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Mount Everest · Different everyday word
Different everyday word The two terms share no characters at all. In Taiwan the standard term is 聖母峰; on the Mainland it is 珠穆朗玛峯 - both point at “Mount Everest”.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 聖母峰、珠穆朗瑪峯 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 | 聖母峰 | 珠穆朗玛峯 |
| Reading | ㄕㄥˋ ㄇㄨˇ ㄈㄥ shèng mǔ fēng | zhū mù lǎng mǎ feng ㄓㄨ ㄇㄨˋ ㄌㄤˇ ㄇㄚˇ |
| Senses | Mount Everest | Mount Everest |
| Syllabus | — | — |
| MOE records | 聖母峰 · 珠穆朗瑪峯 | |
| Dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary | not in the LinZi dictionary |
| Audio | — | — |
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