Bohai Sea

== English == === Alternative forms === Bo Hai Sea, Pohai Sea, P'o-hai Sea === 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. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈboʊhaɪsiː/, enPR: bōʹhīsē === Proper noun === the Bohai Sea A gulf of the Yellow Sea in the northern Pacific Ocean beside Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, and Liaoning on the northeastern coast of mainland China. ==== 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. ==== Synonyms ==== Bo Hai (quasi-official), Bohai, Bohai Bay, Bohai Gulf, Gulf of Bohai; (archaic) Gulf of Chihli, Gulf of Pechihli ==== Hypernyms ==== Yellow Sea ==== Hyponyms ==== Bohai Bay, Laizhou Bay, Liaodong Bay, Bohai Strait ==== Translations ==== === References === Limits of Oceans and Seas (IHO-23), 3rd ed., 1953. Limits of Oceans and Seas (IHO-23), 4th ed. draft, 2002.