Where does “Biển Bắc” come from?

Biển Bắc (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Bắc, from Middle Chinese 北.

Biển Bắc (Vietnamese): North Sea

Definitions

  1. North Sea

Ancestry of “Biển Bắc”, step by step

Biển Bắc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Bắc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseBắcNorth
2Middle Chinese北—

via Vietnamese biển

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebiểnsea; ocean; sea; sign; signboard; placard; title...
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