འཆི

See also: འཆུ་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj (“to die”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿt͡ɕʰi/
• Lhasa: /ɕi˥˥/
• Batang: /xhi˥˧/
• Dêgê: /xhe˥˧/
• Zêkog: /xhə/
• Bla-Brang: /xhə/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿt͡ɕʰi/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xi^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕi˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /xhi˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /xhe˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /xhə/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /xhə/

Verb

འཆི • ('chi) (nominal form འཆི་བ)

1. (intransitive) to die
2. (intransitive) to die away, to go out, to be destroyed

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཆི

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཆི	'chi
Future	འཆི	'chi
Past	ཤི	shi
Imperative	ཤི	shi