bohai sea
/ˈboʊhaɪsiː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A gulf of the Yellow Sea in the northern Pacific Ocean beside Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, and Liaoning on the northeastern coast of mainland China.
Example Sentences
- "Another crisis, the deaths of 70 officers and sailors aboard submarine No. 361 in the Bo Hai Sea in late April, further illustrated Hu's new way of doing business, analysts said."
- "Bohai Sea is on the northeastern coast of China, bounded by Liaodong and Shandong Peninsulas, so pollution there is slow to wash out to the ocean, exacerbating damage to local marine life."
- "Then there is the question of the water quality in the Bohai Sea, a large basin that swirls into Beidaihe. “The water quality is bad,” said Prof. Wang Yamin, of Shandong University Marine College. Runoffs from chemical fertilizer plants have spoiled the sea in the last 30 or so years as China’s economy has grown, he said."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 渤海 (Bóhǎi), from 渤 (Bó, “ancient sea name”) + 海 (hǎi, “sea”), with sea pleonastically distinguishing the meaning in English.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 渤海
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈboʊhaɪsiː/
Inflected Forms
the Bohai Sea (canonical)
Bo Hai Sea (alternative)
Pohai Sea (alternative)
P'o-hai Sea (alternative, misspelling)