Yellow Sea
2
2.5
- proper noun
- Fishing is abundant in the Yellow Sea, attracting many boats each year.
Examples
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China borders three seas: the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.
Academic text (2005) -
Jixun Zhou and Peter Rogers of Georgia Tech, working with scientists from China, first observed such effects in the Yellow Sea.
Academic text (2004) -
To its west is the Yellow Sea, and to its east lies Japan across the Sea of Japan.
Blog text (11) -
China has implemented a summer fishing ban in the East China Sea, the Bohai Sea, and the Yellow Sea since 1995.
Academic text (2009) -
A drinking bowl, lacquered 3000 years ago on a rowboat three days' sail from the coast in the Yellow Sea.
Fiction book (1995) -
The United States Steamship Sturgis, with more than three thousand soldiers on board, was bound for the port at Inchon, South Korea, an industrial center on the Yellow Sea.
Fiction book (1990) -
They flashed into the dark red sun, and the vast forest of China leaped out of the glittering wavelets of the Yellow Sea.
Fiction book (2000) -
Several days after the spill, cleanup efforts were underway over a 165 square mile (430 square kilometer) area of the Yellow Sea.
Blog text (17) -
Spotted seals occur in the seas north and west of the North Pacific Ocean: the Huanghai (Yellow Sea), Okhotsk, Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas.
Academic text (1997) -
The Yellow Sea separates China from the Korean Peninsula.
Synonyms
A shallow sea called the Yellow Sea between China and Korea
Surface Forms
Morphology
The proper name 'Yellow Sea' is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: a sea described by the color 'yellow'. A B1 learner who knows 'yellow' and 'sea' will therefore understand it refers to a particular sea (likely characterized as yellowish) even if they do not infer the exact geographic location, and this naming pattern is cross-linguistically familiar.
Etymology
Yellow Sea may get its name from the yellow colour of the water, which comes from mud carried by the 'Yellow River' and sand blown into the sea. That's why the words Yellow and Sea together simply describe the sea's yellow look.