林芝
Chinese
woods; forest | Zoysia pungens | ||
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trad. (林芝) | 林 | 芝 | |
simp. #(林芝) | 林 | 芝 |
Etymology
Phono-semantic matching, adapted from the earlier 尼池 (níchí) [1950s], a pure phonetic transcription from Tibetan ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri, the local name for Nyingchi). The renaming was influenced by 靈芝/灵芝 (língzhī), a specialty from the Nyingchi area.
Tibetan ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri) is a variant of ཉང་ཁྲི (nyang khri, “Nyingchi”), a name derived from ཉང (nyang, “a Tibetan clan living near the Nyang River (尼洋河)”) and ཁྲི (khri, “a Tibetan clan (living in the lower reaches of the Nyang River?)”) (Agui, 2012).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
林芝
- (~市, formerly ~地區) Nyingchi (a prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, formerly a prefecture)
- (historical) (~縣) Nyingchi (a former county of Nyingchi prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; now Bayi district of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi)