འབྲི་ཆུ

Tibetan

Etymology

འབྲི ('bri, “female yak”) +‎ ཆུ (chu, “water; river”), literally “river of the female yak”.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri.t͡ɕʰu/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨.t͡ɕʰu˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ᵐbri.t͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhi^v-qu^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨.t͡ɕʰu˥˥/

Proper noun

འབྲི་ཆུ • ('bri chu)

Tongtian River (one of the main tributaries to the upper Yangtze River)
Yangtze River

Descendants

→ Chinese: 直曲

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