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Pohai Sea

Pohai Sea is the alternative form of Bohai Sea.

Meaning of Bohai Sea

Proper noun

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.
    • 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.2003 June 27, John Pomfret, “Chinese Leader Solidifies Power”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2024, Politics
    Synonyms:
    Bo Hai, Bohai, Bohai Bay, Bohai Gulf, Gulf of Bohai, Gulf of Chihli, Gulf of Pechihli

Origin of Pohai Sea

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 渤海 (Bóhǎi).

Questions about Pohai Sea

What is Pohai Sea the alternative form of?
Pohai Sea is the alternative form of Bohai Sea.

Words near Pohai Sea in the dictionary

  1. pogy
  2. Pogăceaua
  3. poh
  4. poha
  5. Pohai Bay
  6. Pohai Sea
  7. Pohang
  8. Pohela Boishakh
  9. pohickory
  10. pohiri
  11. pohiris

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pohai Sea (page history and authors); Bohai Sea (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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