Pohai

British  

/ ˌpəʊˈhaɪ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Bohai

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Example Sentences

Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf.

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout the whole of her subsequent intercourse with the Pohai kingdom, intercourse which, though exceedingly fitful, lasted for nearly a century and a half, Japan uniformly insisted upon the maintenance of that attitude.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

The difficulty seems to have been met by substituting the name "Koma" for "Pohai," thus, by implication, admitting that the new kingdom held towards Japan the same status as that formerly held by Koma.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)