西藏

Chinese

		west	phonetic
simp. and trad. (西藏)		西	藏

Etymology

Calque of Manchu ᠸᠠᡵᡤᡳ
ᡯᠠᠩ (wargi dzang, “Ü-Tsang; Tibet”, literally “west dzang”) in Qing-dynasty imperial annals (Qing Shilu, 1663 CE) (Chen, 1999).

The Manchu term was a phono-semantic matching of Tibetan དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang, “Ü-Tsang”), matching the first syllable དབུས (dbus, “centre”) with the then close-sounding Manchu ᠸᠠᡵᡤᡳ (wargi, “west”, i.e. western region) (ibid.).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xīzàng

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄗㄤˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹ zong⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Sî-chhông
Min Dong (BUC): Să̤-câung
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): Se-chōng

(Teochew, Peng'im): sai¹ zang⁶
Wu (Wiktionary): xi zaan (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Xīzàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄗㄤˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shitzanq
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ t͡sɑŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai¹ zong⁶
  - Yale: sāi johng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹ dzong⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei¹ zong⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵ t͡sɔːŋ²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Sî-chhông
  - Hakka Romanization System: xi´ cong´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xi¹ cong¹
  - IPA: /ɕi²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: Să̤-câung
  - IPA ^(key): /sɛ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(t͡s-)ʒɑuŋ²⁴²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Se-chōng
  - Tâi-lô: Se-tsōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sezong
  - IPA (Xiamen): /se⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sɔŋ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /se³³ t͡sɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /se⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sɔŋ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /se⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /se⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sɔŋ³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sai¹ zang⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sai tsăng
  - IPA ^(key): /sai³³⁻²³ t͡saŋ³⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: xi zaan (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ z̻ɑ̃²¹/

Proper noun

西藏

Tibet (cultural area)
- 北踰瀚海，西絶羌荒，青海、厄魯特、西藏、準噶爾之地咸入版圖。 [MSC, trad.]
  北踰瀚海，西绝羌荒，青海、厄鲁特、西藏、准噶尔之地咸入版图。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1764, 欽定大清會典
  Běi yú Hànhǎi, xī jué Qiāng huāng, Qīnghǎi, Èlǔtè, Xīzàng, Zhǔngá'ěr zhī dì xián rù bǎntú. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)
(～自治區) Tibetan Autonomous Region; Xizang Autonomous Region

Synonyms

(older names) 蕃 (fán), 土蕃 (Tǔbō, Tǔfán), 吐蕃 (Tǔbō, Tǔfán)

Derived terms

西藏地方

西藏自治區／西藏自治区 (Xīzàng Zìzhìqū)

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