but6 hoi2渤海
Jyutpingbut6 hoi2
Yalebuht hói
Definition
Bohai Sea; a gulf and marginal sea of the Yellow Sea located on the northeastern coast of China.
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How it's used
Geographical names like 渤海 are treated as proper nouns and rarely take a measure word in casual speech. It is almost exclusively used in formal or educational contexts, such as geography lessons or news reports about regional maritime affairs. Unlike everyday objects, you would not typically use a classifier like 個 when referring to it.
Examples
The Bohai Sea is a very important inland sea of China.
Do you know where the Bohai Sea is?
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
