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Vietnamese
Etymology
bốn (“four”) + bể (“sea; ocean”), calque of Chinese 四海 (tứ hải, “four seas”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bốn bể
- the seas around China
- (literary, possibly obsolete) the four oceans, the Pacific, the Indian, the Atlantic and the Arctic
- (literary) the whole world
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