波羅的海

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Chinese

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

  1. Baltic Sea

Usage notes

Since is the possessive particle in Chinese, sometimes this place name is misunderstood as 菠蘿 / 菠萝 (bōluó de hǎi, sea of pineapples), and Cantonese speakers may also replace (dik1) with its equivelant word (ge3). Note that 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 (Dīlíbōlǐ).

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