Gê'gyai

proper noun

A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Geji

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

    The region also has built a solar power station in the Ge'gyai County with a generating capacity of 10,008 waits.

    [1995 August 21 [1995 August 20], “Tibet Uses Sun Exposure To Exploit Solar Energy”, in Daily Report: China, number 161, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62, column 2
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    Continuing through Gêrzê, the route climbs round the foot of Mt Nganglong Kangri (6596 metres), and passes Gêgyai, a town divided into two halves separated by about two km.

    [1992 February, Robert Strauss, “Western Tibet & the Xinjiang Routes”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 207, column 2

    The Wenbudangsang section is a newly discovered continuous succession of marine carbonates that straddles the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB), extending from the late Permian to the earliest Triassic (Induan). The section is located in the Wenbudangsang area of Geji County, northern Tibet, and tectonically sits within the northern Gangdise Stratigraphic division.

    [2014 October, Guichun Wu, Zhansheng Ji, Julie A. Trotter, Jianxin Yao, Liqin Zhou, “Conodont biostratigraphy of a new Permo-Triassic boundary section at Wenbudangsang, north Tibet”, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, volume 411, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022

    Synonyms: Geji

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Geji

Origin

  1. Tibetanདགེ་རྒྱས
  2. EnglishGê'gyai

From Tibetan དགེ་རྒྱས (dge rgyas).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 革吉
  • 革吉 (gaak³ gat¹)county; town
Chinese Mandarin 革吉
  • 革吉 (Géjí)county; town
Japanese ゲギェ県
  • ゲギェ県 (Gegye-ken)county; town
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APA

Gê'gyai. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/G%C3%AA'gyai

MLA

“Gê'gyai.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/G%C3%AA'gyai. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gê'gyai,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/G%C3%AA'gyai.

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