Gêrzê

proper noun

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

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Gerze · alternative Gertse

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

    Also in Totalashan of Rutog and the area to the north of Gêrzê of Tibet there appear corals with dissepiment like Polythecalis, Chusenophyllum and Wentzellophyllum.

    1992, The Paleoclimate of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63
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    Gerzê is really the end of the world. It is situated in the middle of an empty desert, and I can't imagine why anyone ever stopped to build a town here. Except for a few nondescript Chinese concrete buildings, all the walls and houses are made from mud bricks and everything— the houses, the road, even the surrounding countryside—is the same light brown color. Beyond the town, emptiness stretches to the horizon.

    [1992, Jim Reynolds, The Outer Path: Finding my way in Tibet, Sunnyvale, Cali.: Fair Oaks Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90

    Ge Yi was from Chabug Village in Gêrzê County. Before he became Party branch secretary of Nuxtiu Village, his family had more than 400 sheep and 100 yak, making them one of the wealthy families in the village.

    2012, Du Wenjuan, Tales from Tibet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=NKmUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT296&lpg=PT296

    The Upper Carboniferous Zhanjin Formation has attracted much attention from geoscientists for containing glacial–marine diamictite and cold‐water fauna typified by the bivalve Eurydesma. The presence of this Formation has provided important evidence for determining the northern border of Gondwana. Previous researchers have classified those strata north of Niangrong Co in the Gêrzê region as part of the Zhanjin Formation based on the presence of glacial–marine diamictite, although the absence of biological fossil evidence has defied clear age determination.

    2015 October 24, Luo Shenglong, Wang Genhou, Gao Jinhan, Wang Xunlian, Xiao Hongji, “Age of the Purported Zhanjin Formation in Gêrzê County, Tibet: A New Understanding and Its Significance”, in Acta Geologica Sinica, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021
  2. A town in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Synonyms & antonyms

from Mandarin Chinese

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Origin

  1. Tibetanསྒེར་རྩེ་
  2. EnglishGêrzê

From Tibetan སྒེར་རྩེ་ (sger rtse).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 改則 /改则
  • 改則 /改则 (Gǎizé)county; town
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APA

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

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

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