གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ

Tibetan

Etymology

གཞིས་ཀ (gzhis ka, “native land, estate, country”) +‎ རྩེ (rtse, “peak, summit”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*gʑis.ka.rt͡se/
• Lhasa: /ɕi˩˨.kə˥˥.t͡seˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*gʑis.ka.rt͡se/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xi^v-gac^f-ze
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕi˩˨.kə˥˥.t͡seˑ/

Proper noun

གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ • (gzhis ka rtse)

1. Shigatse

Descendants

• → English: Shigatse
• → Chinese: 日喀則 / 日喀则