柴達木盆地 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 柴达木盆地 cháidámùpéndì ㄔㄞˊ ㄉㄚˊ ㄇㄨˋ ㄆㄣˊ ㄉㄧˋ Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Character by character 柴(chái)surname Chai 達(dá)surname Da 木(mù)surname Mu 盆(pén)basin 地(dì)earth A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0