འཆི

See also: འཆུ་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *si, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij (“to die”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ⁿt͡ɕʰi/
Lhasa: /ɕi˥˥/
Batang: /xhi˥˧/
Dêgê: /xhe˥˧/
Zêkog: /xhə/
Bla-Brang: /xhə/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ⁿt͡ɕʰi/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xi^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕi˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /xhi˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /xhe˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /xhə/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /xhə/

Verb

འཆི • ('chi) (nominal form འཆི་བ)

(intransitive) to die
(intransitive) to die away, to go out, to be destroyed

Conjugation

Conjugation of **འཆི** ('chi)
present	འཆི ('chi)
future	འཆི ('chi)
past	ཤི (shi)
imperative	ཤི (shi)