"Dōngyáng" () and "Dōngyíng" () – both literally, "Eastern Ocean" – are Chinese terms sometimes used to refer to Japan exotically when contrasting it with other countries or regions in eastern Eurasia; however, these same terms may also be used to refer to all of East Asia when contrasting "the East" with "the West". The first term, "Dōngyáng", has been considered to be a pejorative term when used to mean "Japan", while the second, "Dōngyíng", has remained a positive poetic name. They can be contrasted with "Nányáng" (Southern Ocean), which refers to Southeast Asia, and "Xīyáng" (Western Ocean), which refers to the Western world. In Japanese and Korean, the Chinese word for "Eastern Ocean" (pronounced as "tōyō" in Japanese and as "dongyang" () in Korean) is used only to refer to the Far East (including both East Asia and Southeast Asia) in general, and it is not used in the more specific Chinese sense of "Japan".