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Kanji Detail for 琉 - "lapis lazuli, gem, blue"
琉
- Meaning
琉 means "lapis lazuli, gem, blue."
Lapis lazuli - A precious blue gemstone.
Ryukyu - The islands of Okinawa.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
precious stone; gem; lapis lazuli
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
sparkling stone; glazed, opaque
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
precious stone
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
sparkling stone; opaque, glazed
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
琉璃. A precious object anciently from the Western Regions. Transparent and lustrous. Has all five colors. Objects made from it were extremely precious, considered a type of crystal jade. During Northern Wei, people from the Greater Yuezhi came to China and first began mining and melting stone to make it. This is today's fired enamel. Later it was also used to glaze ceramics. Tiles on palaces are called 琉璃瓦, also made from this material. Old Beijing had a Liuli Factory, the workshop for making it.
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