ཙ

See also: ཅི and ཅ

ཙ U+0F59, ཙ TIBETAN LETTER TSA ← མ [U+0F58] Tibetan ཚ → [U+0F5A]

Translingual

Letter

ཙ

1. Tibetan letter tsa

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɑ/, [t͡sɑ]

Letter

ཙ (tsa)

1. The twentieth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɑ˥/, [t͡sɑ˥]

Letter

ཙ (tsa)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-sa. Cognates include Tibetan རྩ (rtsa) and Dzongkha རྩ (rtsa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sə́/

Noun

ཙ (tsa)

1. nerve
2. sinew
3. tendon
4. blood vessel

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 161
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sə/, [t͡sə]

Letter

ཙ (tsa)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sa/, [t͡sa]

Letter

ཙ (tsa)

1. The eighth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɐ/, [t͡sɐ]

Letter

ཙ (tsa)

1. The twentieth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡sa/
• Lhasa: /t͡sa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡sa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: za^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˥/

Letter

ཙ • (tsa)

1. Tibetan letter tsa