south china sea
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A marginal sea of the Western Pacific, on the East coast of Asia. The western arm of the Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland and Taiwan, Borneo and the Philippines.
Example Sentences
- "The Philippine Islands are an archipelago southeast of Asia. They extend almost due north and south from Formosa to Borneo, and they separate the South China Sea from the Pacific Ocean."
- "Ignoring international law, the Chinese have claimed sovereignty over most of the South China Sea and are embarked upon a massive land reclamation and construction program to bolster these claims."
- "“We are aware that there has been an unauthorized release of video footage from flight deck cameras onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) of the F-35C Lightning II crash that occurred Jan. 24, in the South China Sea. There is an ongoing investigation into both the crash and the unauthorized release of the shipboard video footage,” Cmdr. Zach Harrell, spokesperson for Commander, Naval Air Forces, said in an email."
Inflected Forms
the South China Sea (canonical)