ཚ

See also: ཚི, ཚྭ, ཆཱོ, ཆ, ཆུ, and ཚོ

ཚ U+0F5A, ཚ TIBETAN LETTER TSHA ← ཙ [U+0F59] Tibetan ཛ → [U+0F5B]

Translingual

Letter

ཚ

1. Tibetan letter tsha

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʰɑ/, [t͡sʰɑ]

Letter

ཚ (tsha)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʰɑ˥/, [t͡sʰɑ˥]

Letter

ཚ (tsha)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa. Cognates include Tibetan ཚྭ (tshwa), Dzongkha ཚྭ (tshwa) and Mandarin 鹺 / 鹾 (cuó).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t̪͡sʰɐ́]

Noun

ཚ (tsha)

1. salt

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 122
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʰə/, [t͡sʰə]

Letter

ཚ (tsha)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʰa/, [t͡sʰa]

Letter

ཚ (tsha)

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

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʰɐ/, [t͡sʰɐ]

Letter

ཚ (tsha)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Pronunciation

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

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

Letter

ཚ • (tsha)

1. Tibetan letter tsha

Adjective

ཚ • (tsha)

1. hot
2. spicy
3. having a sharp pain

Derived terms

• ཚ་པོ (tsha po)