黑水晶

黑水晶

Chinese

		black; dark; Heilongjiang Province (abbrev.)	crystal
simp. and trad. (黑水晶)		黑	水晶

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hēishuǐjīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄟ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: hēishuǐjīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄟ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄥ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heishoeijing
    • IPA ^(key): /xeɪ̯⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

黑水晶

1. Persian wine, the recipe of which was brought back to China by Zhang Qian in the Han Dynasty.
   • 1898, Herbert Allen Giles, A Chinese Biographical Dictionary, page 12:

     ...and to have taught his countrymen the art of making wine, which he had learnt from the Persians. One name for this wine was 黑水晶 "black crystal"...

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