DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

渤海灣

简渤海湾 · 繁渤海灣

Mandarin · pinyin Bó hǎi wān

Bohai Bay

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

渤: bó · swelling; (渤海) the Bohai Sea
海: hǎi · sea, ocean; maritime
灣: Look up this written character
湾: wān · bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–3–1 · Bo2 hai3 wan1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

3character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

渤海灣 · find source passages ↗ · 渤海湾 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

Bohai Bay (a bay of the Bohai Sea or Yellow Sea beside Tianjin in northern China)

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack