རིན་ཆེན

Tibetan

Etymology

From རིན (rin, “value, worth”) +‎ ཆེན (chen, “big”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rin.t͡ɕʰen/
• Lhasa: /ʐĩ˩˨.t͡ɕʰẽ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rin.t͡ɕʰen/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: rin^v-qen^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʐĩ˩˨.t͡ɕʰẽ˥˥/

Noun

རིན་ཆེན • (rin chen)

1. treasure, valuable, precious jewel, gem

Proper noun

རིན་ཆེན • (rin chen)

1. a unisex given name: Rinchen

Descendants

• → Chinese: 仁欽／仁钦 (Rénqīn)