"Gulf of Tonkin" meaning in English

See Gulf of Tonkin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: the Gulf of Tonkin [canonical]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|def=1}} the Gulf of Tonkin
  1. A gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of northern Vietnam (Tonkin) and South China. Wikipedia link: Gulf of Tonkin Categories (place): Seas Synonyms: Gulf of Beibu, Tonkin, Gulf of Tong-King, Tong-King Translations (gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China): 北部灣 /北部湾 (bak¹ bou⁶ waan¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 北部灣 /北部湾 (Běibù Wān) (Chinese Mandarin), 東京灣 /东京湾 (Dōngjīng Wān) (Chinese Mandarin), トンキン湾 (Tonkin-wan) (Japanese), golfo de Tonquim [masculine] (Portuguese), golfo de Tonkín [masculine] (Spanish), vịnh Bắc Bộ (Vietnamese)

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Gulf of Tonkin",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Gulf of Tonkin",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "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 Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Seas",
          "orig": "en:Seas",
          "parents": [
            "Bodies of water",
            "Places",
            "Landforms",
            "Water",
            "Names",
            "Earth",
            "Liquids",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Nature",
            "Matter",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Chemistry",
            "Lemmas",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of northern Vietnam (Tonkin) and South China."
      ],
      "id": "en-Gulf_of_Tonkin-en-name-p45nHAAO",
      "links": [
        [
          "gulf",
          "gulf"
        ],
        [
          "South China Sea",
          "South China Sea"
        ],
        [
          "Vietnam",
          "Vietnam"
        ],
        [
          "Tonkin",
          "Tonkin"
        ],
        [
          "South China",
          "South China"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Gulf of Beibu"
        },
        {
          "word": "Tonkin"
        },
        {
          "word": "Gulf of Tong-King"
        },
        {
          "word": "Tong-King"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "bak¹ bou⁶ waan¹",
          "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
          "word": "北部灣 /北部湾"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "Běibù Wān",
          "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
          "word": "北部灣 /北部湾"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "Dōngjīng Wān",
          "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
          "word": "東京灣 /东京湾"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "Tonkin-wan",
          "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
          "word": "トンキン湾"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "golfo de Tonquim"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "golfo de Tonkín"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
          "word": "vịnh Bắc Bộ"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gulf of Tonkin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gulf of Tonkin"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Gulf of Tonkin",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Gulf of Tonkin",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Cantonese translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "en:Seas"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of northern Vietnam (Tonkin) and South China."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gulf",
          "gulf"
        ],
        [
          "South China Sea",
          "South China Sea"
        ],
        [
          "Vietnam",
          "Vietnam"
        ],
        [
          "Tonkin",
          "Tonkin"
        ],
        [
          "South China",
          "South China"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gulf of Tonkin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Gulf of Beibu"
    },
    {
      "word": "Tonkin"
    },
    {
      "word": "Gulf of Tong-King"
    },
    {
      "word": "Tong-King"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "bak¹ bou⁶ waan¹",
      "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
      "word": "北部灣 /北部湾"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Běibù Wān",
      "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
      "word": "北部灣 /北部湾"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Dōngjīng Wān",
      "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
      "word": "東京灣 /东京湾"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Tonkin-wan",
      "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
      "word": "トンキン湾"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "golfo de Tonquim"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "golfo de Tonkín"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "gulf along the coasts of northern Vietnam and South China",
      "word": "vịnh Bắc Bộ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gulf of Tonkin"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Gulf of Tonkin meaning in English (2.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). 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.