ཆུང་ཆུང

Tibetan

Etymology

A reduplication of ཆུང (chung).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰuŋ.t͡ɕʰuŋ/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰỹ˥˥.t͡ɕʰỹ˥˥/, /t͡ɕʰuŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰuŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕʰuŋ.t͡ɕʰuŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: quen^f-quen^f, qung^f-qung^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰỹ˥˥.t͡ɕʰỹ˥˥/, /t͡ɕʰuŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰuŋ˥˥/

Adjective

ཆུང་ཆུང • (chung chung)

1. small, tiny

Antonyms

• ཆེན་པོ (chen po)