Pohai Sea

A form of 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.

Meanings

proper nounthe Pohai Sea
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Bohai Sea, a gulf of the Yellow Sea in northeastern China.

    The entire Pohai Sea and Chiungchow Straits are China’s inland seas.

    A Concise Geography of China

    1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, “Land and People”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 4
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    The militia battalion of Lichiapao production brigade of Huanghua County, Hopeh, is an advanced unit on the Pohai Sea front.

    1972 July 12 [1972 June 12], “Heroic Militia on the Pohai Front”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 135, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking PEOPLE'S DAILY, 12 Jun 72, p 4, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page B 1

    The conductress woke me as we came out of the Taihang Mountains onto the endless expanse of the Yellow River floodplain (which makes up about two-thirds of the North China Plain):from Beijing in the north to Loyang in the south, from the Taihang Mountains in the west to the Pohai Sea in the east, nothing but mud.

    2009, Bill Porter, “No Home”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79

    Before the 7.4 quake on July 18, 1969, in the Pohai Sea on the coast of northern China, weird behavior was observed in “seagulls, sharks and five different species of fish.” Based on observations of unusual behavior of giant pandas, deer, yaks, loaches, tigers and other animals, a warning was issued at the Tientsin People’s Park zoo, two hours before the earthquake struck.

    2017, Trish MacGregor, Rob MacGregor, “The Awesome Power of Nature”, in Sensing the Future: How to Tap Into Your Intuition and Read Signs From the Universe to Predict What's to Come (Mind, Body & Spirit/Parapsychology/ESP), Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89

Origin

  1. Chinese渤海
  2. EnglishPohai Sea

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

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