Kanji 器 utensil, vessel, receptacle Related words 磁器 is the ordinary Japanese term for porcelain, while チャイナ is the loanword-style equivalent mainly seen in product names like ボーンチャイナ .
磁器 refers specifically to porcelain, a finer and harder ceramic, whereas 陶磁器 is the umbrella term including both 磁器 and 陶器 .
磁器 means porcelain (hard, translucent), which is only one type of ware that 瀬戸物 can refer to.
Don't confuse with 磁器 is hard, translucent porcelain fired at high temperature, while 陶器 is thicker, more porous earthenware fired at lower temperature.
磁気 (magnetism) and 磁器 (porcelain) are pronounced identically as じき but refer to completely unrelated things—one a physical force, the other a type of ceramic.
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Etymology 磁器 is a Sino-Japanese word (kango) composed of 磁 (ji, originally referring to a type of stoneware or magnetic material) and 器 (ki, 'vessel, utensil'). The term was adopted to describe high-fired, vitrified ceramics introduced from China.
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