Abstract After the research on the fill blanks on the map of China, the author fill more place names of the eastern section of southern Tibet, from the original 9 to 36. In this paper, for one of the additional 27 point names “Pasighat”, we carried out special inguistic. Introducing the basic situation of Pasighat as China’s “Rain City” and the end of the Yarlungtsangpo Great Canyon, and according to features of Lhoba language in the SinoTibetan languages, we guess that the meaning of the Pasighat in Lhoba language is “the side of Yarlungtsangpo River”; emphasize the importance for filling “Pasighat” in southern Tibetan the name of the map of China.
Hao Xiaoguang ,Liao Xiaoyun ,Hu Xiaogang et al. AN IMPORTANT SOUTH TIBET PLACE NAME PASIGHAT SHOULD BE MARKED ON MAP OF CHINA[J]. , 2010, 30(Supp.1): 161-164.
Hao Xiaoguang ,Liao Xiaoyun ,Hu Xiaogang et al. AN IMPORTANT SOUTH TIBET PLACE NAME PASIGHAT SHOULD BE MARKED ON MAP OF CHINA[J]. jgg, 2010, 30(Supp.1): 161-164.