波羅的海

Chinese

		Baltic	ocean; sea
trad. (波羅的海)		波羅的	海
simp. (波罗的海)		波罗的	海

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波羅的海 / 波罗的海

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Bōluódì Hǎi

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄛㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄏㄞˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bo¹ lo⁴ dik¹ hoi²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Pho-lô-tek-hái

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bōluódì Hǎi
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄛㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄏㄞˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Boluódì Hǎi
  - Wade–Giles: Po¹-lo²-ti⁴ Hai³
  - Yale: Bwō-lwó-dì Hǎi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Boluodih Hae
  - Palladius: Болоди Хай (Bolodi Xaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵ ti⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bo¹ lo⁴ dik¹ hoi²
  - Yale: bō lòh dīk hói
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bo¹ lo⁴ dik⁷ hoi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: bo¹ lo⁴ dig¹ hoi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔː⁵⁵ lɔː²¹ tɪk̚⁵ hɔːi̯³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pho-lô-tek-hái
  - Tâi-lô: Pho-lô-tik-hái
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phoiloi'dekhae
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ lo²⁴⁻¹¹ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ hai⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ lɤ²³⁻³³ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ hai⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /pʰo⁴⁴⁻²² lo²⁴⁻²² tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ hai⁵³/

Proper noun

波羅的海

Baltic Sea (a sea in Northern Europe, an arm of the Atlantic enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden)
- 1848, 徐繼畬 [Xu Jiyu], editor, 瀛寰志略, volume 4, page 3:
  
  波羅的海之東岸有大城曰彼德羅堡，峩羅斯之都城也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  波罗的海之东岸有大城曰彼德罗堡，峩罗斯之都城也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  Bōluóde Hǎi zhī dōng'àn yǒu dà chéng yuē Bǐdéluóbǎo, Éluósī zhī dūchéng yě. [Pinyin]
  On the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea there lies a great city called St. Petersburg, which is the capital of Russia.

Usage notes

Since 的 is the possessive particle in Chinese, sometimes this place name is misunderstood as 菠蘿的海 / 菠萝的海 (bōluó de hǎi, “sea of pineapples”), and Cantonese speakers may also replace 的 (dik¹) with its equivalent word 嘅 (ge³). Note that 的 is pronounced as "dì" when used in phonetic transcriptions as opposed to "de" as a possessive particle.

Similar phenomenon also occurs in the case of 的黎波里.

Synonyms

(short form) 波海

Derived terms

波羅的海三國 / 波罗的海三国
波羅的海之路 / 波罗的海之路 (Bōluódì Hǎi zhī Lù)