ཞེ་ས

ཞེ་ས

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ʑe.sa/
• Lhasa: /ɕe˩˧˨.saˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ʑe.sa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xe^w-sa
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕe˩˧˨.saˑ/

Noun

ཞེ་ས • (zhe sa)

1. respect, deference, honor
2. (language) honorific

   ཞེ་ས་རྒྱག

   zhe sa rgyag

   to speak in honorifics / with honorific language