ཁྲི

Tibetan

Etymology 1

**Tibetan numbers ^(edit)**
← 10	← 1,000	༡༠༠༠༠ 10,000	100,000 →	10,000,000 (10⁷) →
Cardinal: ཁྲི (khri)

According to Starostin, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rij (“many”). Cognate with Chinese 師 (OC *sri), 皆 (OC *kriːl), 偕 (OC *kriːl), and Jingpho ri (“million”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰri/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰi˥˥/
Batang: /ʈ͡ʂʰɪ˥˧/
Dêgê: /ʈ͡ʂʰi˥˧/
Zêkog: /ʈ͡ʂʰə/
Bla-Brang: /ʈ͡ʂʰə/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰri/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: chi^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰi˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɪ˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰi˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰə/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰə/

Numeral

ཁྲི • (khri)

ten thousand

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj (“foot”). Cognate with Chinese 几 (OC *krilʔ), 机 (OC *kril, *krilʔ), and Burmese ခြေ (hkre).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰri/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰi˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰri/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: chi^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰi˥˥/

Noun

ཁྲི • (khri)

seat, chair

Derived terms

ཉལ་ཁྲི (nyal khri, “bed”)
བང་ཁྲི (bang khri, “shelf”)