Shigatseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Xigazê, Xigaze, Zhikatse

語源

From Tibetan གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ (gzhis ka rtse).

発音

• enPR: shēgäʹtsě

固有名詞

Shigatse

1. A prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 1905, Perceval Landon, The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4‎^[1], New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., →OCLC, page 444:

     Far different in character and general disposition is the Penchen Rinpoche (または, as generally called by us, the Tashi Lama) of the great monastery of Tashi-lhunpo near Shigatse.

   • 1973 April 22, “Troops concentrate on Tibet-Sikkim border”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XIV, number 15, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Truck convoys, carrying troops as well as supplies, have been shuttling between Shigatse and the border area, the source said.
     "Such traffic has also been very heavy on the Shigatse-Yatung highway and the Shigatse-Gartok highway," the source added.

   • 1990, Derek J. Waller, The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia‎^[3], University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

     The Pundit described Shigatse as being three-quarters of a mile long and half a mile wide, surrounded by fertile soil, with a population of nine thousand and garrisoned by a force of one hundred Chinese and four hundred Tibetan soldiers.

   • 2018, Central Tibetan Administration, Tibet was Never a Part of China: but the Middle Way Approach Remains a Viable Solution‎^[4], New Delhi: Norbu Graphics, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 October 2019, page 147:

     In a similar case, on September 23, 2014, more than 1,000 local Tibetans of Dokar and Zibuk villages (Lhundrup County, Shigatse Prefecture) near Lhasa, the Tibetan capital city protested against the poisoning of their rivers by the Gyama Copper Poly-metallic Mine.

   • 2020 May 15, Kurczy, Stephen, “Tendol Gyalzur, Refugee Who Founded Orphanages in Tibet, Dies”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-15, THOSE WE’VE LOST‎^[6]:

     Tenzin Dolkar, who later began using Tendol, a variation of her first name, was born in the central Tibetan town of Shigatse (also known as Xigaze) on Dec. 2, 1951, according to her Swiss passport.

   • 2020 July 31, “CIMC Sanctum provides 72 liquid oxygen storage tanks for oxygen-deficient Tibet”, in AP News, PR Newswire‎^[7], archived from the original on 24 August 2022‎^[8]:

     CIMC Sanctum has been providing liquid oxygen storage tanks for schools, hospitals, nursing homes, government buildings, police and fire stations in Lhasa, Naqu, Ngari and Shigatse and other areas since 2017.

   • 2020 September 4, “China planning building spree in Tibet as India tensions rise, sources say”, in Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on 05 September 2020:

     Beijing also wants to push ahead with the Tibet-Nepal Railway linking Kathmandu with Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet, which was among a number of bilateral deals signed in 2018 between Nepal and China, but has yet to gain much traction.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shigatse.

同意語

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Rikaze, Jih-k'a-tse, Jih-k'o-tse

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shigatse or Zhikatse”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1752, column 1
• “Shigatse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.