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Bogue.

a strait in the Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou and the South China Sea

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  1. a strait in the Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou and the South China Sea

    definite · proper-noun · usually
Where this word comes from

A corruption of Portuguese Boca do Tigre (literally “Mouth of the Tiger”), a calque of the Chinese name 虎門 /虎门 (Hǔmén, literally “Tiger Gate”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.