གཞུང

གཞུང

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t/duŋ (“navel, centre”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʑuŋ˩/

Noun

གཞུང (zhung)

1. centre, core, heartland, hub
2. government, the state, the public
3. Buddhist philosophy

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Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t/duŋ. Cognate with 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “centre, middle”).

Pronunciation 1

• Old Tibetan: /*gʑuŋ/
• Lhasa: /ɕuŋ˩˧/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*gʑuŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: xung^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕuŋ˩˧/

Noun

གཞུང • (gzhung)

1. centre, core, middle
2. (main) text, scripture, literature

Pronunciation 2

• Old Tibetan: /*gʑuŋ/
• Lhasa: /ɕuŋ˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*gʑuŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: xung^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕuŋ˩˧˨/

Noun

གཞུང • (gzhung)

1. government, the state

Derived terms

• གཞུང་ལམ (gzhung lam)