Bohai Sea

English

Alternative forms

• Bo Hai Sea, Pohai Sea

Etymology

From Mandarin 渤海 (Bóhǎi) + sea.

Proper noun

Bohai Sea or the Bohai Sea

1. A marginal sea on the east coast of China.
   • 2003 June 27, John Pomfret, “Chinese Leader Solidifies Power”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 19, 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 2019-08-22, 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.

Synonyms

• (dated) Gulf of Chihli

Translations

marginal sea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渤海 (zh) (Bó Hǎi), 北海 (zh) (Běihǎi)

• Japanese: 渤海 (Bokkai)

See also

• Bohai Bay