pohai sea
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Bohai Sea, a gulf of the Yellow Sea in northeastern China.
Example Sentences
- "The entire Pohai Sea and Chiungchow Straits are China’s inland seas."
- "The militia battalion of Lichiapao production brigade of Huanghua County, Hopeh, is an advanced unit on the Pohai Sea front."
- "The conductress woke me as we came out of the Taihang Mountains onto the endless expanse of the Yellow River floodplain (which makes up about two-thirds of the North China Plain):from Beijing in the north to Loyang in the south, from the Taihang Mountains in the west to the Pohai Sea in the east, nothing but mud."
- "Before the 7.4 quake on July 18, 1969, in the Pohai Sea on the coast of northern China, weird behavior was observed in “seagulls, sharks and five different species of fish.” Based on observations of unusual behavior of giant pandas, deer, yaks, loaches, tigers and other animals, a warning was issued at the Tientsin People’s Park zoo, two hours before the earthquake struck."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 渤海
Inflected Forms
the Pohai Sea (canonical)