Obsolete Japanese name for Tibet; modern usage prefers チベット. Found in older texts.
See also: チベット
西蔵 was once used as a term for Tibet.
Standard kanji form for the historical name of Tibet.
Obsolete kanji form using the old character 藏.
From Chinese 西藏 (Xīzàng), meaning 'Western Tsang', referring to the western part of historical Tibet. The reading せいぞう is the on'yomi of the kanji.