Han blue
Meaning
Noun
- A pigment made from barium copper tetrasilicate, an artificial blue pigment, used by ancient Chinese for over 2 millennia before dying out at the end of the Han dynasty; one of the few alternates to azurite in ancient times.
Related
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Origin
- Han + blue
- From being a blue pigment last used during the Han Dynasty
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