འབྲི་ཆུ
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
འབྲི ('bri, “female yak”) + ཆུ (chu, “water; river”), literally “river of the female yak”.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri.t͡ɕʰu/
- Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨.t͡ɕʰu˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhiv-quf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨.t͡ɕʰu˥˥/
Proper noun[edit]
འབྲི་ཆུ • ('bri chu)
- Tongtian River (one of the main tributaries to the upper Yangtze River)
- Yangtze River
Descendants[edit]
- → Chinese: 直曲