section_path: Names and etymologies
section_name: Names and etymologies
paragraph_text: Names and etymologies
  
  Tibet Autonomous Region is often shortened to Tibet in English or Xizang in Hanyu Pinyin. The earliest official record of the word Xizang in the Qing Dynasty was in 1663 AD (eighth month of the second year of Kangxi). In the late Ming Dynasty, there were also records of Xizang in Zheng Luo's memorials, the first of which was written during the Wanli period, and the second was written between 1590 AD and 1591 AD (the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Wanli). The term Xizang (西藏) was officially used in 1724 AD when the Imperial Stele Inscriptions of the Pacification of Tibet was erected in Lhasa. The inscriptions were writteen in Han (Xizang), Tibetan (Bod), Mancu (Wargi Dzang), and Mongol (Tobed) languages. The first known use of the noun Tibet is in 1827 which is after the publishment of the 29-Article Ordinance for the More Effective Governing of Tibet in 1793.