section_path: Etymology/Tibetan
section_name: Tibetan
paragraph_text: Tibetan
  
  The source and upper reaches of the Yangtze are located in ethnic Tibetan areas of Qinghai. In Tibetan, the Tuotuo headwaters are the Machu (Tibetan: རྨ་ཆུ་, Wylie: rma-chu, lit. "Red Water"). The Tongtian is the Drichu (འབྲི་ཆུ་, ‘Bri Chu’), literally "Water of the Female Yak "; transliterated into Chinese: 直曲; pinyin: Zhíqū).