ཚིག

ཚིག

See also: ཚེག and ཆེ་གེ

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʰik̚˥/

Noun

ཚིག (tshig)

1. word

Derived terms

• ཁྱད་ཚིག (khyad tshig)
• བསྡུ་ཚིག (bsdu tshig)

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Tibetan

Etymology

The resemblance to Chinese 詞／词 (cí, “word”) is likely coincidental.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡sʰik/
• Lhasa: /t͡sʰi˥˩/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡sʰik/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: ci^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰi˥˩/

Noun

ཚིག • (tshig)

1. word, phrase

Derived terms

• སྐུལ་ཚིག (skul tshig)
• གབ་ཚིག (gab tshig)
• ཚིག་མཛོད (tshig mdzod)
• མིང་ཚིག (ming tshig, “noun”)
• བྱ་ཚིག (bya tshig)
• རྒྱན་ཚིག (rgyan tshig)
• གསང་ཚིག (gsang tshig)