ཇ

ཇ

See also: ཛ

ཇ U+0F47, ཇ TIBETAN LETTER JA [unassigned: U+0F48] ← ཆ [U+0F46] Tibetan ཉ → [U+0F49]

Translingual

Letter

ཇ

1. Tibetan letter ja

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Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja, “tea”), from Chinese 茶 (MC ɖˠa), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

Noun

ཇ (ɟɑ)

1. tea

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Tibetan

Letter

ཇ • (ja)

1. letter ja [dʑà/tɕʰà] of the Tibetan abugida

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 茶 (MC ɖˠa), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*d͡ʑa/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*d͡ʑa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: qa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

Noun

“tea”

Plain	ཇ (ja)
Honorific	གསོལ་ཇ (gsol ja)

ཇ • (ja)

1. tea

Derived terms

• ཇ་སྦ་ཀག (ja sba kag)
• ཇ་ཁེབས (ja khebs, “tea cosy”)
• ཇ་ཀོབ་པི (ja kob pi, “coffee”)
• འཚིག་ཇ ('tshig ja, “coffee”)

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Zangskari

Noun

ཇ (transliteration needed)

1. tea

References

• Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar