Etymology

རིན ‎(rin, “value, price”) +‎ པོ་ཆེ ‎(po che, “big kind of; intensifying or emphatic suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rin.po.t͡ɕʰe/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: rim^v-bu^f-qi, rin^v-bo^f-qe
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʐim˩˧.pu˥˥.t͡ɕʰiˑ/, /ʐĩ˩˧.po˥˥.t͡ɕʰeˑ/