སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆི

Tibetan

Etymology

སྐྱེ (skye) +‎ རྒ (rga) +‎ ན (na) +‎ འཆི ('chi). Compare Chinese 生老病死 (shēnglǎobìngsǐ).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*skʲe.rɡa.na.ⁿt͡ɕʰi/
• Lhasa: /ce˥˥.kaˑ nə˩˨.t͡ɕʰiˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*skʲe.rɡa.na.ⁿt͡ɕʰi/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gye^f-ga nac^v-qi
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ce˥˥.kaˑ nə˩˨.t͡ɕʰiˑ/

Idiom

སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆི • (skye rga na 'chi)

1. fate of humanity, four stages of humankind (birth, old age, sickness and death)

References

• “སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆི” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 73. →ISBN