Bohai Sea

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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.

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the Bohai Sea

  1. A gulf of the Yellow Sea in the northern Pacific Ocean beside Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, and Liaoning on the northeastern coast of mainland China.
    • 2003 June 27, John Pomfret, “Chinese Leader Solidifies Power”, in The Washington Post‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 April 2024, Politics‎[2]:
      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.
    • 2009 June 22, “Oil slicks poisoning China's Bohai Sea - official”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, editor, Reuters‎[3], archived from the original on 14 May 2022, Oil Report‎[4]:
      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.
    • 2019 August 22, Jane Perlez, “At Mao’s Beach, China’s Leaders Still Make History as Lifeguards Hide From the Sun”, in The New York Times‎[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 August 2019, Asia Pacific‎[6]:
      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.

Usage notes

Bohai Sea is an informal calque of the Chinese name for the gulf, unrecognized by the still active 3rd edition of the Limits of Oceans and Seas (IHO-23), which considers its waters part of the Yellow Sea. The draft 4th edition officially recognizes it—still as a region of the Yellow Sea—under the less redundant name Bo Hai but remains unratified.

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Hyponyms

  • Bohai Bay, Laizhou Bay, Liaodong Bay, Bohai Strait

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