བཞི་བཅུ

Tibetan

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Cardinal: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu)     Ordinal: བཞི་བཅུ་པ (bzhi bcu pa)

Etymology

From བཞི (bzhi, “four”) +‎ བཅུ (bcu, “ten”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʑi.pt͡ɕu/
• Lhasa: /ɕip̚˩˨.t͡ɕu˥˥/
• Batang: /ɣɪ˥˥ t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Dêgê: /ʑe˧˩ t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Zêkog: /wʑə pt͡ɕə/
• Bla-Brang: /hʑəp t͡ɕə/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʑi.pt͡ɕu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xib^v-ju^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕip̚˩˨.t͡ɕu˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɣɪ˥˥ t͡ɕu˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ʑe˧˩ t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /wʑə pt͡ɕə/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hʑəp t͡ɕə/

Numeral

བཞི་བཅུ • (bzhi bcu)

1. forty