འབྲི་ཆུ

Tibetan

Etymology

འབྲི ('bri, “female yak”) +‎ ཆུ (chu, “water; river”), literally “river of the female yak”.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri.t͡ɕʰu/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨.t͡ɕʰu˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbri.t͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhi^v-qu^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨.t͡ɕʰu˥˥/

Proper noun

འབྲི་ཆུ • ('bri chu)

1. Tongtian River (one of the main tributaries to the upper Yangtze River)
2. Yangtze River

Descendants

• → Chinese: 直曲