ཁ

ཁ

1. Tibetan letter kha

• IPA^(key): /kʰa/, [kʰʌ]

ཁ (kha)

1. The third letter in the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

• IPA^(key): /kʰɑ˥/, [kʰɑ˥]

ཁ (kha)

1. The second letter of the Dzongkha alphabet, named kha

ཁ (kha)

1. language
2. mouth
3. surface
4. edge, blade

• (mouth): ཞལ (zhal) (formal)
• (blade): རྣོས (rnos)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka. Cognates include Tibetan ཁ (kha) and Dzongkha ཁ (kha).

• IPA^(key): [kʰɐ́]

ཁ (kha)

1. mouth
2. language

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 17
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 44

• IPA^(key): /kʰa/, [kʰa]

ཁ (kha)

1. The second letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

ཁ (kha)

1. snow

• IPA^(key): /kʰa/, [kʰa]

ཁ (kha)

1. the second letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka.

ཁ (kha)

1. mouth

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tornadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

• IPA^(key): /kʰɐ/, [kʰɐ]

ཁ (kha)

1. The second letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

ཁ (kha)

1. mouth

ཁ • (kha)

1. The second letter of the Tibetan abugida

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m/s-k(w)a-y (“mouth, opening, spread, door, face, jaw”) (STEDT).

Doublet of སྒོ (sgo, “door”). Cognate with Mizo kâ (“mouth”), Mizo kha-bê (“chin”).

ཁ • (kha)

1. mouth
2. speech

• གྲུ་ཁ (gru kha, “shipyard”)

• “ཁ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “ཁ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.