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发帖数: 20 | 1 中国历史上盛产瓷器，
当时瓷器生产主要在江西景德镇，
当时江西景德镇叫昌南镇，
同china同音，而且china本身就是瓷器的意思。
这是外国人叫中国china得由来
宋景德年间，赐名景德镇,至今。 | S*******s
发帖数: 13043 | 2 Our term china for porcelain or ceramic ware is a shortening of chinaware
and probably china dishes. Although the word china is identical in spelling
to the name of the country, there are 16th- and 17th-century spellings like
chiney, cheny, and cheney that reflect the borrowing into English of the
Persian term for this porcelain, chºnº. The Persian word and the
Sanskrit word cºn³¡, “Chinese people,” which gave us the
English name for the country, go back to the C |
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