Han purple
English
noun
Definitions
- A pigment made from barium copper disilicate, the first artificial purple pigment, used by Chinese for over 2 millennia before dying out at the end of the Han dynasty.
Etymology
Compound from English Han + English purple.
Origin
English
purple
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Chinese purple English
- Han English
- Han blue English
- Hanize English
- Unihan English
- bepurple English
- empurple English
- impurple English
- nonpurple English
- purple English
- purple death English
- purple state English
- purpleheart English
- purplely English
- purpleness English
- purpletuft English
- purplewood English
- purplish English
- purply English
- unpurple English
- purple Middle English
- perpol Bislama