bốn bể

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Vietnamese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bốn (four) +‎ bể (sea; ocean), calque of Chinese 四海 (tứ hải, four seas).

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Noun[edit]

bốn bể

  1. the seas around China
  2. (literary, possibly obsolete) the four oceans, the Pacific, the Indian, the Atlantic and the Arctic
  3. (literary) the whole world

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