zisha clay

Jan 20, 2006 2 Replies

I have a yixing teapot made of "zisha" clay but doesn't "zi sha" mean "to kill oneself" in mandarin?


"Zisha" means purple sand, it is a kind of mud, "Zi" in chinese is a color purple. "Sha" is sand. So we called zisha.

"Zisha" means purple sand, it is a kind of mud, "Zi" in chinese is a color purple. "Sha" is sand. So we called zisha.

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