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་
་
symbol
The tsheg is a small dot used to separate syllables in written Tibetan. It helps readers identify where one syllable ends and the next begins.

“ཀ་་ཁ་་ག་་ང་།”

Ka, kha, ga, nga.

Also means
  1. ཚེག (tsheg), the syllable separator of the Tibetan abugida
  2. tsheg

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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ཀ
ཀ[*ka]
character
This is the very first letter of the Tibetan alphabet. It is the beginning point for learning to read and write the language.

“ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་ནི་བོད་ཡིག་གི་གསལ་བྱེད་ཡིན།”

Ka, kha, ga, nga are the consonants of the Tibetan script.

Also means
  1. The first letter of the Tibetan abugida.
  2. Ka

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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ཁ
ཁ་བཏགས།[khatak]
noun
ceremonial scarf

“ཁོང་ལ་ཁ་བཏགས་ཤིག་ཕུལ་སོང་།”

A ceremonial scarf was offered to him.

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ཁ་སང་[kha-sang]
noun/adverb
yesterday

“ཁ་སང་ང་ནང་ལ་བསྡད་པ་ཡིན།”

Yesterday I stayed home.

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ཁང་པ།[khang-pa]
noun
house

“ང་ཁང་པ་ལ་འགྲོ་གི་ཡིན།”

I am going home.

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ཁྲུས་ཁང་།[thrü-khang]
noun
bathroom

“ཁྲུས་ཁང་ག་པར་ཡོད་རེད།”

Where is the bathroom?

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ཁེ་པོ་[khe-po]
adjective
cheap

“ཅ་ལག་འདི་ཁེ་པོ་འདུག།”

This item is cheap.

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གཉེན་ཉེ།[nyen-nye]
noun
relative

“ང་ལ་གཉེན་ཉེ་མང་པོ་ཡོད།”

I have many relatives.

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གཉེན་སྒྲིག[nyen-drig]
noun
marriage

“ཁོང་གཉིས་གཉེན་སྒྲིག་བྱས་པ་རེད།”

They got married.

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གད་རྒྱག་པ།[gen-gyak-pa]
verb
to sweep

“ངས་ཉིན་ལྟར་གད་རྒྱག་གི་ཡོད།”

I sweep every day.

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གད་སྙིགས།[gen-nyig]
noun
garbage

“གད་སྙིགས་ཕྱི་ལ་བསྐྱུར་རོགས།”

Please throw out the garbage.

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གནམ་གཤིས་[gnam-gshis]
noun
weather

“གནམ་གཤིས་ག་འདྲ་འདུག།”

How is the weather?

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གནམ་ཐང་།[nam-thang]
noun
airport

“གནམ་ཐང་ཐག་རིང་པོ་འདུག”

The airport is far away.

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གཞས་[Shay]
noun
song

“གཞས་འདི་སྙན་པོ་འདུག།”

This song is melodious.

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གཞིས་ཆགས།[zhi-chak]
noun
settlement

“གཞིས་ཆགས་འདིའི་ནང་ལ་མི་ག་ཚོད་ཡོད་རེད།”

How many people are there in this settlement?

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གཡས་ཕྱོགས།[ye-chyok]
noun
right side

“གཡས་ཕྱོགས་ལ་སོང་།”

Go to the right.

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གཡོན་ཕྱོགས།[yön-chyok]
noun
left side

“གཡོན་ཕྱོགས་ལ་ཁ་བསྐོར་དང་།”

Please turn to the left.

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གྲོགས་པོ་[trok-po]
noun
Friend

“ཁོང་ངའི་གྲོགས་པོ་ཡིན།”

He is my friend.

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གློག་ཀླད་[lok-lay]
noun
computer

“གློག་ཀླད་འདི་གསར་པ་རེད།”

This computer is new.

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གློག་བཞུ།[lok-shu]
Noun
Lamp

“གློག་བཞུ་གསལ་པོ་འདུག།”

The lamp is bright.

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གློག་བརྙན།[lok-nyen]
noun
movie

“ངས་གློག་བརྙན་ལྟ་རྒྱུར་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད།”

I like watching movies.

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གསོལ་སྟོན་[Söltön]
noun
feast

“དོ་དགོང་གསོལ་སྟོན་ཡོད།”

There is a feast tonight.

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གོང་ཆེན་པོ་[gong-chen-po]
adjective
expensive

“ཅ་ལག་འདི་གོང་ཆེན་པོ་རེད།”

This item is expensive.

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ངོ་ཤེས།[Ngo-shay]
noun/verb
acquaintance

“ང་ཁོང་ངོ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མེད།”

I don't know him (acquaintance).

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ངོ་སྤྲོད[Ngo-troe]
noun
introduction

“ང་རང་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཅིག་བྱེད་ཆོག་པ་གནང་།”

Please allow me to introduce myself.

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ཅ
ཅོག་ཙེ།[chok-tse]
noun
table

“དེབ་འདི་ཅོག་ཙེའི་སྒང་ལ་ཡོད།”

The book is on the table.

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ཆ
ཆུ་ཚོད་[chu-tshod]
noun
hour; clock

“ང་ལ་ཆུ་ཚོད་གཅིག་དགོས།”

I need one hour.

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ཆུ།[chu]
Noun
Water

“ཆུ་འཁོལ་མ་འཐུང་།”

Drink boiled water.

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ཇ
ཇ
character
The letter ja is the eighth consonant of the Tibetan alphabet. It is used in many common words.

“ཇ་འཐུང་གི་ཡོད།”

I am drinking tea.

Also means
  1. letter ja [dʑà/tɕʰà] of the Tibetan abugida
  2. letter ja

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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ཇ།[Cha]
noun
tea

“ཇ་འདི་ཞིམ་པོ་འདུག།”

This tea is delicious.

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ཉ
ཉ[*ȵa]
character
This is the eighth letter of the standard Tibetan alphabet. It represents a nasal sound.

“ཉ་འདི་ཆེ་གི”

This fish is big.

Also means
  1. The eighth letter of the Tibetan alphabet
  2. nya

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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ཉལ་ཁྲི།[nyal-thri]
noun
bed

“ཉལ་ཁྲི་འདི་སྙི་པོ་འདུག།”

This bed is soft.

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ཉལ་གོས།[nyel-gö]
noun
blanket

“ཉལ་གོས་འདི་སྲབ་པོ་འདུག”

This blanket is thin.

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ཉུང་ཉུང་[nyung-nyung]
adjective
few

“ཇ་ཉུང་ཉུང་གཅིག་འཐུང་།”

Drink a little tea.

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ཉོ་བ་[nyo-wa]
verb
to buy

“ང་ཚོང་ཁང་ལ་ཅ་ལག་ཉོ་བར་འགྲོ་གི་ཡིན།”

I am going to the shop to buy things.

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ཐ
ཐབ་ཚང་།[thap-tsang]
noun
kitchen

“ཨ་མ་ལགས་ཐབ་ཚང་ནང་ལ་ཡོད།”

Mother is in the kitchen.

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ཐེངས་[teng]
noun
times

“ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་ཐེངས་གཉིས་མཐོང་བྱུང་།”

I saw you two times.

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ཐོ་བ་[tho-wa]
noun
hammer

“ང་ལ་ཐོ་བ་གཅིག་དགོས་འདུག།”

I need a hammer.

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དཀར་པོ།[karpo]
adjective
white

“གངས་རི་དཀར་པོ་རེད།”

The snow mountain is white.

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དཀར་ཡོལ།[kar-yöl]
noun
cup

“དཀར་ཡོལ་འདི་གཙང་མ་འདུག།”

This cup is clean.

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