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5 +1 | Ã-Tsang |
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Ã-Tsang Explanation: Encyclopedia: Ã-Tsang Other descriptions of Ã-Tsang Ü-Tsang (Wylie transliteration: Dbus-gtsang, Tibetan: དབུསགཙང་ Simplified Chinese: 卫藏; Traditional Chinese: 衛藏; pinyin: Wèizàng), or Tsang-Ü, is one of the traditional provinces of Tibet, the others being Amdo and Kham. Geographically Ü-Tsang covers the central and western portions of the Tibetan cultural area, including the Tsang-po (Gtsang-po) watershed, the western districts surrounding and extending past Mount Kailash, and much of the vast Chang Tang (Byang-thang) plateau to the north. The Himalayan range defined Ü-Tsang's southern border. The present Tibet Autonomous Region corresponds approximately to the borders of historic Ü-Tsang plus western Kham. The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan alphabet using the keys on a typical English language typewriter. ... The Tibetan language is typically classified as member of the Tibeto-Burman which in turn is thought by some to be a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the... Tibet - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Amdo (Tibetan: ཨ༌མདོ, Chinese: 安多, Pinyin: Ānduō) is considered the northern part of Tibet by Tibetans and is the place from where the present Dalai Lama comes from. ... A Tibetan man from Kham Kham (Wylie transliteration: Khams, Tibetan: à½à½˜à½¦, Simplified Chinese: 康, Pinyin: KÄng) province is one of several provinces comprising traditional Tibet (the others Amdo and Ãœ-Tsang). ... The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia. ... Mount Kailash (also Mount Kailas or Kangrinbogê Feng 30. ... Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ... The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སà¾à¾±à½¼à½„་ལྗོངས་; Pö Rangyongjong; Wylie: Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs; Simplified Chinese: 西è—自治区; Traditional Chinese: 西è—自治å Reference: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/%C3%9C_Tsang Reference: http://21sz.org/Common/Admin/showNews_auto.jsp?Nid=6314&Char... |
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卫藏 西藏 Explanation: 滿語 Wargi 意思為 "西", "西方". "衛藏" 即 "烏斯藏", 即 "西藏", 也許稍查一下 Google 就找到了. |
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