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sancai

sancai noun: a kind of decoration on Chinese pottery using glazes or slip, predominantly in the three colours of brown (or amber), green, and a creamy off-white, and particularly associated with the Tang dynasty (618–907) and its tomb figures.

Noun

sancai (uncountable)

  1. A kind of decoration on Chinese pottery using glazes or slip, predominantly in the three colours of brown (or amber), green, and a creamy off-white, and particularly associated with the Tang dynasty (618–907) and its tomb figures.

Forms of sancai

alternative formsan ts'ai

Origin of sancai

Borrowed from Chinese 三彩 (“three colours”).

Questions about sancai

What does sancai mean?
Sancai means a kind of decoration on Chinese pottery using glazes or slip, predominantly in the three colours of brown (or amber), green, and a creamy off-white, and particularly associated with the Tang dynasty (618–907) and its tomb figures.
What part of speech is sancai?
Sancai is a noun.

Words near sancai in the dictionary

  1. sanbornite
  2. Sanborns
  3. Sanbornton
  4. Sanbornville
  5. Sanbō Kōjin
  6. sancai
  7. sancak
  8. sancaks
  9. sance bell
  10. sance bells
  11. Sancerre

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