林芝

Chinese

		woods; forest	Zoysia pungens
trad. (林芝)		林	芝
simp. #(林芝)		林	芝

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching, adapted from the earlier 尼池 (níchí) [1950s], a pure phonetic transcription from Tibetan ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri, the local name for Nyingchi). The renaming was influenced by 靈芝／灵芝 (língzhī), a specialty from the Nyingchi area.

Tibetan ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri) is a variant of ཉང་ཁྲི (nyang khri, “Nyingchi”), a name derived from ཉང (nyang, “a Tibetan clan living near the Nyang River (尼洋河)”) and ཁྲི (khri, “a Tibetan clan (living in the lower reaches of the Nyang River?)”) (Agui, 2012).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Línzhī

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lam⁴ zi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Línzhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄓ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Línjhih
    • Wade–Giles: Lin²-chih¹
    • Yale: Lín-jr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Linjy
    • Palladius: Линьчжи (Linʹčži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lam⁴ zi¹
    • Yale: làhm jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lam⁴ dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lem⁴ ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐm²¹ t͡siː⁵⁵/

Proper noun

林芝

1. (～市, formerly ～地區) Nyingchi (a prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, formerly a prefecture)
2. (historical) (～縣) Nyingchi (a former county of Nyingchi prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; now Bayi district of the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi)