卫藏

English translation: Ü-Tsang

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Chinese term or phrase:卫藏
English translation:Ü-Tsang
Entered by: Wilman

15:08 Jul 16, 2005
Chinese to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Chinese term or phrase: 卫藏
One of the dialects spoken by Tibetans.Is it Tibetan or does it have a special name?
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Wilman
United States
Local time: 04:02
Ü-Tsang
Explanation:



Encyclopedia: Ü-Tsang

Other descriptions of Ü-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: ཁམས, Simplified Chinese: 康, Pinyin: Kāng) 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་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་; Pö Rangyongjong; Wylie: Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs; Simplified Chinese: 西藏自治区; Traditional Chinese: 西藏自治å
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Ü-Tsang


Explanation:



Encyclopedia: Ü-Tsang

Other descriptions of Ü-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: ཁམས, Simplified Chinese: 康, Pinyin: Kāng) 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་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་; Pö Rangyongjong; Wylie: Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs; Simplified Chinese: 西藏自治区; Traditional Chinese: 西藏自治å


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Chinoise
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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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