gZhungwa dialect belongs to Shar Tibetan, spoken in Yuwa village, Jiuzhaigou County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan. Shar Tibetan dialects are also spoken in Songpan County and the eastern area of Ruoergai County. This article treats phonetic and dialectal characteristics of gZhungwa dialect, which has following particularities: the register distinction based on the two different phonation types; special phonemes such as /ɮ, ɜ/; combinations of an initial and its preaspiration which do not match in voicedness; and the simplified vowel correspondence with Written Tibetan forms. At the end of this article, a wordlist (ca. 1400 words) of gZhungwa Tibetan is provided.