Gyantse

English

Alternative forms

• Gyangtse
• Gyangzê

Etymology

From Tibetan རྒྱལ་རྩེ (rgyal rtse).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gyänʹtsěʹ

Proper noun

Gyantse

1. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
2. A town in Gyantse County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Jiangzi, Chiang-tzu

Translations

a town and a county in Tibet

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 江孜 (gong¹ zi¹)

  Mandarin: 江孜 (zh) (Jiāngzī)

• Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ (rgyal rtse)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gyangze”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[1], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1479, column 3

Anagrams

• Yangtse, ageynst