ཡིག་ཚིགས་སྟོང

Tibetan

Etymology

ཡིག་ཚིགས (yig tshigs, “byte”) +‎ སྟོང (stong, “one thousand”)

Pronunciation

  • Old Tibetan: /*jik.t͡sʰiks.stoŋ/
  • Lhasa: /ji(k̚)ˀ˩˨.t͡sʰi(k̚)ˀˑ.tʰoŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཡིག་ཚིགས་སྟོང • (yig tshigs stong)

  1. kilobyte, a unit of 1,024 (base-2) or 1,000 (base-10) bytes in computing

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