ཉི་ཧོང

Tibetan

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 日(に)本(ほん) (nihon); doublet of རི་པིན (ri pin).

Proper noun

ཉི་ཧོང • (nyi hong)

1. Japan (a country in Asia)

   Synonym: ཇི་བེན (ji ben)

Adjective

ཉི་ཧོང • (nyi hong)

1. Japanese (pertaining to Japan)

References

• “ཉི་ཧོང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.