"Bo'ao" meaning in English

See Bo'ao in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Boao [alternative], Po-ao [alternative]
enPR: bǔʹouʹ Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博鰲 /博鳌 (Bó'áo). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} Hanyu Pinyin, {{bor|en|cmn|博鰲}} Mandarin 博鰲 /博鳌 (Bó'áo) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Bo'ao
  1. A town in Qionghai, Hainan, China. Categories (place): Places in China, Places in Hainan, China, Towns in China, Towns in Hainan, China Translations (town): 博鰲 /博鳌 (bok³ ngou⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 博鰲 /博鳌 (Bó'áo) (Chinese Mandarin), Bo'ao (French)

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn-pinyin",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Hanyu Pinyin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "博鰲"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin 博鰲 /博鳌 (Bó'áo)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博鰲 /博鳌 (Bó'áo).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Boao",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Po-ao",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Bo'ao",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Cantonese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in China",
          "orig": "en:Places in China",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Hainan, China",
          "orig": "en:Places in Hainan, China",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Towns in China",
          "orig": "en:Towns in China",
          "parents": [
            "Towns",
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Towns in Hainan, China",
          "orig": "en:Towns in Hainan, China",
          "parents": [
            "Towns",
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              99,
              103
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "[1938, Tokyo Gazette, volume 2, →OCLC, page 35:",
          "text": "On April 16th, a Japanese landing party, covered by warships and aeroplanes, effected a landing at Poao on the eastern coast of Hainan Island in face of the Chinese force and occupied the port.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              30,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Acta Herpetologica Sinica",
          "ref": "1988, Susana Salas Frazier, John G. Frazier, et al., “Sea Turtles in Fujian and Guangdong Provinces”, in 两栖爬行行动学报 [Acta Herpetologica Sinica], volume 1, Science Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37:",
          "text": "Beimen beach is just north of Bo'ao port, seaward of the village.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              74,
              79
            ],
            [
              552,
              557
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2005 January 18, David Barboza, “China's Latest Capitalist Beachhead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, Business:",
          "text": "And a spectacular international conference center in a resort town called Bo'ao is being promoted as China's answer to Davos, Switzerland, where each January the annual World Economic Forum of business leaders, government officials, activists and intellectuals is held.[…]\nInvestors have taken notice. Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, is scouting development projects here. And Citic Pacific, a huge Hong Kong conglomerate, plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years to develop residential and commercial property in Bo'ao.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              247,
              252
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020 July 29, “Yum China Reaches Milestone of 10,000 Stores”, in AP News; w:PR Newswire, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025:",
          "text": "Yum China Holdings, Inc. (the “Company” or “Yum China”) (NYSE: YUMC) today announced that it has reached the milestone of 10,000 stores in its restaurant network across China and overseas. It celebrated at the 10,000th store opening this month in Bo’ao, Hainan province.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              147,
              152
            ],
            [
              171,
              176
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2022 April 21, “China's Xi says international disputes should be resolved via dialogue, not sanctions”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2022:",
          "text": "In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese president Xi Jinping delivers a speech via video link to the opening ceremony of the Bo'ao Forum For Asia in Bo'ao in southern China's Hainan Province, April 21, 2022.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A town in Qionghai, Hainan, China."
      ],
      "id": "en-Bo'ao-en-name-VaaGzFmO",
      "links": [
        [
          "town",
          "town"
        ],
        [
          "Qionghai",
          "Qionghai#English"
        ],
        [
          "Hainan",
          "Hainan#English"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "bok³ ngou⁴",
          "sense": "town",
          "word": "博鰲 /博鳌"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "Bó'áo",
          "sense": "town",
          "word": "博鰲 /博鳌"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "town",
          "word": "Bo'ao"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "bǔʹouʹ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Bo'ao"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn-pinyin",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Hanyu Pinyin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "博鰲"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin 博鰲 /博鳌 (Bó'áo)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博鰲 /博鳌 (Bó'áo).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Boao",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Po-ao",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Bo'ao",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin",
        "English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
        "English terms derived from Hanyu Pinyin",
        "English terms derived from Mandarin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Cantonese translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "en:Places in China",
        "en:Places in Hainan, China",
        "en:Towns in China",
        "en:Towns in Hainan, China"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              99,
              103
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "[1938, Tokyo Gazette, volume 2, →OCLC, page 35:",
          "text": "On April 16th, a Japanese landing party, covered by warships and aeroplanes, effected a landing at Poao on the eastern coast of Hainan Island in face of the Chinese force and occupied the port.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              30,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Acta Herpetologica Sinica",
          "ref": "1988, Susana Salas Frazier, John G. Frazier, et al., “Sea Turtles in Fujian and Guangdong Provinces”, in 两栖爬行行动学报 [Acta Herpetologica Sinica], volume 1, Science Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37:",
          "text": "Beimen beach is just north of Bo'ao port, seaward of the village.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              74,
              79
            ],
            [
              552,
              557
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2005 January 18, David Barboza, “China's Latest Capitalist Beachhead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, Business:",
          "text": "And a spectacular international conference center in a resort town called Bo'ao is being promoted as China's answer to Davos, Switzerland, where each January the annual World Economic Forum of business leaders, government officials, activists and intellectuals is held.[…]\nInvestors have taken notice. Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, is scouting development projects here. And Citic Pacific, a huge Hong Kong conglomerate, plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years to develop residential and commercial property in Bo'ao.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              247,
              252
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020 July 29, “Yum China Reaches Milestone of 10,000 Stores”, in AP News; w:PR Newswire, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025:",
          "text": "Yum China Holdings, Inc. (the “Company” or “Yum China”) (NYSE: YUMC) today announced that it has reached the milestone of 10,000 stores in its restaurant network across China and overseas. It celebrated at the 10,000th store opening this month in Bo’ao, Hainan province.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              147,
              152
            ],
            [
              171,
              176
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2022 April 21, “China's Xi says international disputes should be resolved via dialogue, not sanctions”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2022:",
          "text": "In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese president Xi Jinping delivers a speech via video link to the opening ceremony of the Bo'ao Forum For Asia in Bo'ao in southern China's Hainan Province, April 21, 2022.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A town in Qionghai, Hainan, China."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "town",
          "town"
        ],
        [
          "Qionghai",
          "Qionghai#English"
        ],
        [
          "Hainan",
          "Hainan#English"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "bǔʹouʹ"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "bok³ ngou⁴",
      "sense": "town",
      "word": "博鰲 /博鳌"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Bó'áo",
      "sense": "town",
      "word": "博鰲 /博鳌"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "town",
      "word": "Bo'ao"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Bo'ao"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Bo'ao meaning in English (4.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (a681f8a and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.