See also: ཅི and
U+0F59, ཙ
TIBETAN LETTER TSA

[U+0F58]
Tibetan
[U+0F5A]

Translingual

Letter

  1. Tibetan letter tsa

Balti

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɑ/, [t͡sɑ]

Letter

(tsa)

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

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɑ˥/, [t͡sɑ˥]

Letter

(tsa)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodish *(r)tsa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-sa. Cognates include Tibetan རྩ (rtsa) and Dzongkha རྩ (rtsa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t̪͡sɐ́]

Noun

(tsa)

  1. nerve
  2. sinew
  3. tendon
  4. blood vessel

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rtsuʔ. Cognates include Dzongkha རྩྭ (rtswa) and Tibetan རྩྭ (rtswa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t̪͡sɐ́]

Noun

(tsa)

  1. grass

References

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 161
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sə/, [t͡sə]

Letter

(tsa)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sa/, [t͡sa]

Letter

(tsa)

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

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɐ/, [t͡sɐ]

Letter

(tsa)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Pronunciation


Letter

• (tsa)

  1. Tibetan letter tsa