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Tsonga language

Tsonga (Xitsonga, ISO tso) is a Southern Bantu language (S53) spoken in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Eswatini; a South African official language since 1996, click-free, with dialects including Dzonga, Nkuna, Ronga, and Tswa.

Tsongkha (Qingtang) regime of Gyisaluo and its relations with the Song

The Tsongkha (Qingtang) regime of Gyisaluo and its relations with the Song (唃厮啰政权与宋) was a Tibetan polity of the northwest that allied with the Northern Song against the Western Xia.

Sep 23, 2026

Tsongkhapa

Tsongkhapa (宗喀巴), born Lobsang Drakpa, was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and reformer, 1357 to 1419, who founded the Gelug school and Ganden Monastery and wrote the Lam rim chen mo.

Sep 21, 2026

Tsoo E. King

Tsoo E. King (born 1916) was a biochemist and biophysicist, professor at Oregon State University, known for reconstituting the mitochondrial respiratory chain from its components.

Tsotsi

Tsotsi (2005) is Gavin Hood's South African crime drama, adapted from Athol Fugard's 1980 novel, starring Presley Chweneyagae as a Johannesburg gangster transformed by a kidnapped baby; it won South Africa's first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Tsoungiza (Archaia Nemea)

Tsoungiza, prehistoric settlement hill at ancient Nemea, Greece; Neolithic to Late Helladic IIIC; largest Mycenaean site of the Nemea Valley, a subsidiary of Mycenae; excavated by Blegen, Harland, and NVAP.

Tsovinar Dorsa

Tsovinar Dorsa is a 1,100-km ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 46°S, 254°E, IAU-approved 1997 and named for the Armenian lightning deity, one of Venus's sky-goddess-named dorsa.

TSPLIB

TSPLIB is a library of sample instances for the traveling salesman problem, collected by Gerhard Reinelt and published in 1991 as a standard testing benchmark.

Oct 20, 2026

TSPO

TSPO (translocator protein, 18 kDa; formerly peripheral benzodiazepine receptor, PBR) is a five-helix outer mitochondrial membrane protein discovered in 1977, binding cholesterol and PK11195, upregulated in neuroinflammation, and a PET imaging target with rs6971 affinity polymorphism.

TST-2

TST-2 (Tokyo Spherical Tokamak-2) is a spherical tokamak at the University of Tokyo's Kashiwa campus, built in 1999 as an upgrade of TST-M to study radio-frequency current drive.

Tsu

Tsu (津市, Tsu-shi) is the prefectural capital of Mie Prefecture, Japan, near the country's center. Formerly Anotsu, one of Japan's three historic ports; 711.18 km²; 264,662 residents (2026); formed by a 2006 ten-municipality merger.

Tsu Surf

Tsu Surf (Rahjon Cox, born 1990, Newark, New Jersey), also Tsunami Surf, is a battle rapper and recording artist known for URL battles against Loaded Lux and Cortez, albums Seven 25 and MSYKM, a December 2023 five-year federal racketeering sentence, and April 2026 parole.

Tsu-Jae Liu

Tsu-Jae King Liu is an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley known for co-developing the FinFET, the 3D transistor design used in leading-edge computer chips.

Oct 22, 2026

Tsuba

Tsuba (鍔) is the hand guard of a Japanese sword, a flat plate protecting the hand that became a highly valued metal art widely collected today.

Tsubakimoto Chain

Tsubakimoto Chain (椿本チエイン) is a Japanese machinery manufacturer in Osaka, founded in 1917 by Setsuzo Tsubakimoto, with world-leading shares in industrial chains and automotive timing chain systems.

Oct 3, 2026

Tsubasa Chronicle the Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom

Tsubasa Chronicle the Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom (劇場版ツバサ・クロニクル鳥カゴの国の姫君) is a 2005 CLAMP-based anime short, about 35 minutes, directed by Itsuro Kawasaki, animated by Production I.G, and released by Shochiku as a double feature with the xxxHOLiC movie.

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-) is a 2003–2009 CLAMP manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 233 chapters in 28 volumes, following Syaoran's parallel-world quest for Sakura's memory feathers, serialized alongside xxxHOLiC and adapted as a 2005–2007 NHK anime.

Tsubo

The tsubo (坪) is a Japanese unit of area, defined as one square ken and fixed at 3.3058 square meters, still used in real estate.

Oct 22, 2026

Tsuboi Kōzō

Tsuboi Kōzō, originally Hara Nobumichi, was a Japanese vice admiral who championed the line ahead formation and led fast cruisers at the 1894 Battle of the Yalu River.

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内逍遥) was a Japanese literary critic, novelist, playwright, and educator whose 1885 treatise Shōsetsu Shinzui founded modern Japanese literary theory and who spent two decades translating Shakespeare.

Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛)

Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛), "earth spider": an ancient Japanese derogatory term for local groups defying the Yamato court, recorded in Kojiki, Nihon shoki, and fudoki, later a giant spider yokai of the Tsuchigumo sōshi scroll, Noh, and kabuki.

Tsuda Sōgyū

Tsuda Sōgyū (津田宗及, died 1591) was a wealthy Sakai merchant and tea master who served Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi as one of the three great tea masters of the realm.

Tsuda Sōkichi

Tsuda Sōkichi (津田左右吉) was a Japanese historian of ancient Japan and Chinese thought at Waseda University, prosecuted in 1940 for doubting the historical accuracy of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki.

Tsuen Tea (通圓)

Tsuen Tea (通圓, Tsuen-chaya), founded 1160 at Uji Bridge's east end in Uji, Kyoto, is Japan's oldest tea house, run by the 24th-generation Tsuen family, originally bridge guardians serving tea to travelers.

Tsuen Wan

Tsuen Wan (荃湾) is a district in southwest Hong Kong's New Territories and the site of the first new town in the territory, first designated in 1961.

Tsuga (栂)

Tsuga (栂, tsuga), the hemlocks, is a genus of about 10 Pinaceae conifers native to East Asia and North America, with pendent cones and peglike leaf cushions; it originated in North America in the late Oligocene and spread to Asia via Beringia, and eastern species are threatened by the hemlock woolly adelgid.

Tsuga canadensis

Tsuga canadensis, eastern or Canada hemlock, a shade-tolerant, long-lived conifer of eastern North America; foundation species of ravine and cove forests, now imperiled by the hemlock woolly adelgid and climate change.

Tsuga heterophylla

Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock, is a large coniferous tree in the pine family, native from southern Alaska to central California and important for timber.

Tsuga mertensiana

Tsuga mertensiana, mountain hemlock (also alpine hemlock, hemlock spruce), a slow-growing subalpine conifer of the Pacific coast and northern Rockies from Alaska to the Sierra Nevada, reaching 800+ years, with radially arranged needles and large purple cones.