西藏

Chinese

		west	phonetic
trad. (西藏)		西	藏
simp. #(西藏)		西	藏

Etymology

Calque of Manchu ᠸᠠᡵᡤᡳ
ᡯᠠᠩ (wargi dzang, “Ü-Tsang; Tibet”, literally “west dzang”) in Qing-dynasty imperial annals (Qing Shilu, 1663 CE) (Chen, 1999).

The Manchu term was a phono-semantic matching of Tibetan དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang, “Ü-Tsang”), matching the first syllable དབུས (dbus, “centre”) with the then close-sounding Manchu ᠸᠠᡵᡤᡳ (wargi, “west”, i.e. western region) (ibid.).

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 西藏

1. Tibet (cultural area)

   • 北踰瀚海，西絶羌荒，青海、厄魯特、西藏、準噶爾之地咸入版圖。 [MSC, trad.]
     北逾瀚海，西绝羌荒，青海、厄鲁特、西藏、准噶尔之地咸入版图。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1764, 欽定大清會典

     Běi yú Hànhǎi, xī jué Qiāng huāng, Qīnghǎi, Èlǔtè, Xīzàng, Zhǔngá'ěr zhī dì xián rù bǎntú. [Pinyin]

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2. (～自治區) Tibetan Autonomous Region; Xizang Autonomous Region

Synonyms

• (older names) 蕃 (fán), 土蕃 (Tǔbō, Tǔfán), 吐蕃 (Tǔbō, Tǔfán)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
西	藏
せい Grade: 2	ぞう Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Proper noun

1. Kyūjitai form of 西蔵 (“Tibet”)
2. Rare spelling of チベット (“Tibet”).

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Korean

Hanja in this term
西	藏

Proper noun

西藏 • (Seojang) (hangeul 서장)

1. Hanja form^? of 서장 (“Tibet”).

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
西	藏

Proper noun

西藏

1. chữ Hán form of Tây Tạng (“Tibet”).