Body Parts

1. མགོ་བོ།

   Go wo

   Head

   Usage

   Headache is the first sign of altitude sickness; point to your own head while showing this

2. སྐྲ།

   Tra

   Hair

   Usage

   Written with stacked letters; in speech the first consonant drops and it sounds close to "tra"

3. གདོང་པ།

   Dong pa

   Face

   Usage

   The high-altitude sun burns faces fast; useful when asking about sunburn

4. མིག

   Mik

   Eye

   Usage

   No closing shad because it ends in ga. Snow glare damages eyes, so wear sunglasses

5. རྣ་བ།

   Na wa

   Ear

   Usage

   Point to it when your ears block crossing a high pass

6. སྣ།

   Na

   Nose

   Usage

   The dry highland air causes nosebleeds. The spelling differs from na wa, the ear

7. ཁ།

   Kha

   Mouth

   Usage

   The same syllable also carries the sense of speech, related to how the language itself is named

8. སོ།

   So

   Tooth

   Usage

   Point at the tooth while showing this; rural areas often have no dentist

9. ལྕེ།

   Che

   Tongue

   Usage

   The word that comes up when a doctor asks to see your tongue

10. སྐེ།

    Ke

    Neck

    Usage

    The outside of the neck; for pain on swallowing use drin pa

11. མགྲིན་པ།

    Drin pa

    Throat

    Usage

    Dry highland air irritates the throat; sleeping with a mask on helps

12. དཔུང་པ།

    Pung pa

    Shoulder

    Usage

    Point to it when a heavy pack has hurt it

13. ལག་པ།

    Lag pa

    Hand / arm

    Usage

    One word for both hand and arm; point if you need to narrow it down

14. མཛུབ་མོ།

    Dzub mo

    Finger

    Usage

    Fingers go numb fast in the cold; useful when asking about frostnip

15. སེན་མོ།

    Sen mo

    Nail

    Usage

    Nail colour hints at oxygen shortage; if they look blue, see a doctor

16. བྲང་ཁོག

    Drang khog

    Chest

    Usage

    No closing shad because it ends in ga. Chest pain at altitude is urgent

17. སྙིང་།

    Nying

    Heart

    Usage

    Used when explaining a condition; the same word also means the heart in the emotional sense

18. གློ་བ།

    Lo wa

    Lung

    Usage

    High-altitude pulmonary oedema can kill; if breathlessness and coughing persist, descend at once

19. གྲོད་པ།

    Trö pa

    Stomach / belly

    Usage

    The belly in general; point here when you have stomach pain

20. རྒྱུ་མ།

    Gyu ma

    Intestines

    Usage

    Use it when you need to be specific about where the pain is

21. མཆིན་པ།

    Chin pa

    Liver

    Usage

    Used when explaining a condition or medication

22. རྒྱབ།

    Gyab

    Back

    Usage

    The whole back; the waist and lower back is ke pa

23. རྐེད་པ།

    Ke pa

    Waist / lower back

    Usage

    Easily strained after carrying a pack

24. རྐང་པ།

    Kang pa

    Leg / foot

    Usage

    One word for both leg and foot; point at where it hurts

25. པུས་མོ།

    Pü mo

    Knee

    Usage

    Easily hurt on the long climbs and descents of the region's walking routes

26. པགས་པ།

    Pag pa

    Skin

    Usage

    Dry air and strong sun crack the skin; lip balm and moisturiser are essentials

27. རུས་པ།

    Rü pa

    Bone

    Usage

    Used when explaining a fracture

28. ཁྲག

    Thrag

    Blood

    Usage

    No closing shad because it ends in ga. Used for blood type and bleeding

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