ཉི

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ȵi/
• Lhasa: /ȵi˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ȵi/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nyi^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵi˩˨/

Noun

ཉི • (nyi)

1. Ellipsis of ཉི་མ (nyi ma, “sun”).

Prefix

ཉི • (nyi)

1. Combining form of གཉིས (gnyis, “two”), di-, bi-

Derived terms

• ཉི་བརྟེན (nyi brten)
• ཉི་སྟོང (nyi stong)
• ཉི་གཞོན (nyi gzhon)
• ཉི་ཤུ (nyi shu)

References

• “ཉི” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.