Nyingchi

English

Etymology

From Tibetan ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈn(j)ɪŋ.t͡ʃi/, /-t͡ʃə/

Proper noun

Nyingchi

  1. A prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • 1982, Zhang Mingtao, The Roof of the World‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
      Today, developments in modern technology can be observed in the industrial center of Nyingchi on the lower reaches of the Nyang River.
    • 2002, Michael McRae, In Search of Shangri-La‎, Broadway Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198:
      To accommodate the expected visitors, a resort of “holiday villas” for a thousand guests was being planned for Nyingchi, near the upper end of the gorge, as well as a luxury hotel that will cater to the wealthy and powerful. Anticipating the tourist boom, business owners in Nyingchi prefecture formed a club dedicated to investigating reports that a “legendary wild man,’ presumably a yeti, inhabits the gorge.
    • 2011 August 26, Zhang, Dongya, “Tibet season”, in Beijing Today‎, →OCLC, page 20:
      Nyingchi, east of Lhasa, is an ideal place to start the journey because of its lower elevation and pleasant scenery.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nyingchi.

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