Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Nyingchi, east of Lhasa, is an ideal place to start the journey because of its lower elevation and pleasant scenery.
2011 August 26, Dongya Zhang, “Tibet season”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 202 more examples
Today, developments in modern technology can be observed in the industrial center of Nyingchi on the lower reaches of the Nyang River.
1982, Zhang Mingtao, The Roof of the World, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107To accommodate the expected visitors, a resort of “holiday villas” for a thousand guests was being planned for Nyingchi, near the upper end of the gorge, as well as a luxury hotel that will cater to the wealthy and powerful. Anticipating the tourist boom, business owners in Nyingchi prefecture formed a club dedicated to investigating reports that a “legendary wild man,’ presumably a yeti, inhabits the gorge.
2002, Michael McRae, In Search of Shangri-La, Broadway Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Tibetanཉིང་ཁྲི
- EnglishNyingchi
From Tibetan ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri).
More words from Tibetan
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 林芝
- 林芝 (lam⁴ zi¹)prefecture-level city in Tibet, China
Chinese Mandarin 林芝
- 林芝 (Línzhī)prefecture-level city in Tibet, China
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