Nyingchi

English

Etymology

From Tibetan ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)ɪŋ.t͡ʃi/, /-t͡ʃə/

Proper noun

Nyingchi

1. A prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 1982, Zhang Mingtao, The Roof of the World‎^[1], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

     Today, developments in modern technology can be observed in the industrial center of Nyingchi on the lower reaches of the Nyang River.

   • 2002, Michael McRae, In Search of Shangri-La‎^[2], Broadway Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198:

     To accommodate the expected visitors, a resort of “holiday villas” for a thousand guests was being planned for Nyingchi, near the upper end of the gorge, as well as a luxury hotel that will cater to the wealthy and powerful. Anticipating the tourist boom, business owners in Nyingchi prefecture formed a club dedicated to investigating reports that a “legendary wild man,’ presumably a yeti, inhabits the gorge.

   • 2011 August 26, Dongya Zhang, “Tibet season”, in Beijing Today‎^[3], →OCLC, page 20:

     Nyingchi, east of Lhasa, is an ideal place to start the journey because of its lower elevation and pleasant scenery.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nyingchi.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Linzhi, Linchih

Translations

prefecture-level city in Tibet, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 林芝 (lam⁴ zi¹)

  Mandarin: 林芝 (zh) (Línzhī)

• Marathi: न्यिंग्ची n (nyiṅgcī)
• Tibetan: ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri)