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I have a yixing teapot made of "zisha" clay but doesn't "zi sha" mean "to
kill oneself" in mandarin?


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"Zisha" means purple sand, it is a kind of mud, "Zi" in chinese is a
color purple. "Sha" is sand. So we called zisha.

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"Zisha" means purple sand, it is a kind of mud, "Zi" in chinese is a
color purple. "Sha" is sand. So we called zisha.

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