Jih-k'a-tse

From Mandarin 日喀則／日喀则 (Rìkāzé) Wade–Giles romanization: Jih⁴-kʻa¹-tsê².[1]

Jih-k'a-tse

1. Alternative form of Rikaze (Shigatse)
   • 1973, Hsieh, Chiao-min [謝覺民], “Tibet”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China‎, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 198:

     Jih-k’a-tse, Tibet’s second largest city, is located on the Brahmaputra southwest of Lhasa, in Tibet’s major grain-producing area, with highland barley as the major grain.

   • 1995, Explorers & Discoverers‎, volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 753:

     The cousins separated, and Nain Singh joined a caravan posing as a merchant. This time he crossed the border successfully. Singh eventually entered Jih-k’a-tse, the second-largest city in Tibet. It was in Jih-k’a-tse that he was summoned to meet the country’s second-highest religious authority, the Panchen Lama, who turned out to be only 11 years old.

   • 2000, Hall, Gerald F., “The Nain Singh Expeditions Describe Tibet”, in Neil Schlager; Josh Lauer, editors, Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery‎, volume 5, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48:

     Nain joined a caravan and posed as a merchant and was able to get through to Jih-k’a-tse, the second largest city in Tibet.

• “Jih-k'a-tse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.