Reveal the Jade Jargon You Don’t Know

Every industry has its own jargon, and jade is no exception, which is difficult for outsiders to understand at once. In fact, understanding these terms is very helpful when we buy jadeite. Once you master these jade jargons, you will no longer be a layman in the jade industry!

Piece of jade: size and weight of jadeite piece

Old goods: refers to jadeite that was produced earlier

Old field stone: a block from an old field area or old pit; note that there are old field stones, old pits and new pits.

Xinchang Stone: A skinless block from the Xinchang area

Tender: refers to jadeite blocks that are not fully developed

Skin: refers to the outer layer of the jadeite block

Chun: The abbreviation of the purple part of jadeite, sometimes also called "purple jadeite" or "violet".

Black: The abbreviation for the black part of jade, including "black spots", "black silk", "dirty", "black bumps", "black belts", "black nails" and so on.

Skin: The weathered layer on the outside of jade, which was called "Pu" in ancient my country.

Cracks: Cracks and cracks in jade caused by various reasons.

Dirty: Dirty color, impurities or inclusions in the green color of jadeite.

Wilted: An adjective describing the green color of jade, meaning the color is dull and lacks vitality.

Sharp: An adjective that describes the green color of jadeite, meaning that the color is extremely bright and beautiful.

Yan: An adjective used to describe the shade of jade green, implying rich color and abundant water content.

Porcelain: An adjective describing the green color of emerald green, implying stagnation and lack of spirit.

Robe: The concentric red layers on the outer layer of the jade raw material, which is called red jade. Jade in this condition is called "wearing robe".

Fog: Concentric white or gray impregnation layers on the outer layer of jade raw material, also known as "skin wrapped in water".

Water wrapped in skin: also called water invasion or dry heart, white heart. Its characteristic is that after the jade ore body is eroded, a dark gray color invades the entire jade from the outside to the inside. The invaded part appears to have better transparency and color, but the inside is still relatively dry and white.

Tianxian: The literal meaning is easy to understand, that is, the picture is very beautiful and fantastic, and after PS color adjustment, etc., it is very different from the real thing. This is usually said after being cheated.

Taking medicine: This word is mentioned in all categories of antiques, and it means being cheated. In the jade industry, it specifically refers to buying fakes or paying too high a price.

Small three, medium three, large three, small four, medium four... : Don't get the wrong idea, here it refers to the price, 1-3 is small, 3-6 is medium, 7-9 is large, and three refers to three-digit numbers, four is four-digit numbers, and so on. Small three means 100-300, and so on.

No bargaining: It means no bargaining. This is used too many times, so I won’t talk about it anymore.

Short price, floor price: There are these two too, the first one means inquiry, and the second one means the lowest price.

Male flowers and female flowers: Male flowers are blue flowers, female flowers are green flowers, referring to the floating flowers of jadeite.

Thick pile: It means the thickness is large, generally more than 10mm. It is mostly used as pendants. The size has an important influence on the value of jadeite.

Reflection: It refers to the degree of coordination between the color and water quality of jadeite. A good reflection is called "spiritual", which means that the jadeite has a delicate structure, bright color, good hand, uniform tone and high value. A bad reflection can be called "dead". I won’t explain it in detail.

Di Zi - means the base, the collective name for all parts of jade except the green color.

Jade texture - a unique mark of jade, is the fibrous, flaky or star-like flashes of tiny grains in jade, and is a key feature in jade identification.

Cui - a counterfeit, a type of jade with artificial color added.

Material stone - a counterfeit, a kind of glass or fired material product that pretends to be jadeite.

Water head - the transparency of jade, often measured by its length and quality.

Type - A general term for the green color and transparency of jadeite, which is divided into old type, old and new type, and new type.

Standing and lying: that is, standing and lying, often refers to a directionality of jade green.

Depth: dark or light, adjectives for jade color, mainly referring to color quality.

Intense or light: an adjective for jadeite color, referring mainly to the amount of color.

Flowery: Whether the color of jade is uniform or not, uniform is called uniform, and uneven is called flowery.

Spiritual Death: In terms of transparency, transparent is spiritual and opaque is dead; in terms of reflection characteristics, good reflection is spiritual and bad reflection is dead.

Yin and Yang: Bright and open colors are Yang, while dark and stagnant colors are Yin.

Right and wrong: purity of color, bright green without any evil color is right color, while green with hints of yellow, blue, gray, black, or oily color is evil color.

Runmu: Jade with better texture and green water head is Run, while jade with poorer texture and green water head is Wood.

Wax shell: refers to the waxy film on the skin (note the difference between wax shell and patina; wax shell refers to the wax film on the skin, patina refers to the whole)

Knockout: artificial or natural cracks

Wipe: The window left on the block after wiping

Cutting: The cross section of a block is called cutting.

Inlay: The inlay of the block, also known as the chisel mouth, the sand and soil infiltration of the skin

Tight sand: the sand grains are arranged neatly and tightly on the crust; loose sand: the sand grains are arranged randomly and loosely on the crust

Type: refers to jadeite blocks with colors above Pretty Green, Brilliant Green, Emerald Green, Sunny Green (gem-grade jadeite), or high green or multi-green colors

Brick material: refers to jade blocks of varying sizes.

Sign material: Block material for making sign pendants

Bracelet material: Block material used to make bracelets

Bracelet core material: The inner material of the bracelet. Generally, only good jadeite is used as the core material of the bracelet. It is used as a waist hanging piece.

Carving material: Jade blocks used for carving; relief, high relief, medium relief, shallow relief (i.e. thin relief), round carving, hollow carving, combined with carving

Head: The transparency of the water-gray texture of jadeite. High green without water is definitely not as good as jade with water. The water is dry, opaque, and not warm, also known as water shortness

True color: refers to emerald green, and the best true color is positive green.

Color cast: Green with cyan, blue and black as the main colors

Evil color: refers to the color of evil eyes; note that it is different from the color of eye contact, the latter refers to the color of false

Color flavor: refers to the tendency to contain color

Yellowish: The yellowish tendency in green, but the yellowish color is certainly not as obvious as yellow jadeite.

Blue flavor: The blue tendency in green, often seen in sea blue and old blue water species

Yin color: refers to the tendency of the dark blue in green to be too strong but not too dark.

Yang color: refers to the abundance of positive flavor in green

Color root: the source of green, the root of green water quality

Eat White: Jade has a strong light-absorbing and light-emitting effect on a white background. Shows the best color rendering

Color: The ecological shape of the color, mostly refers to the color of the raw material

Mastering these terms will also be helpful for us when purchasing jadeite. Of course, on the road to becoming a jadeite veteran, how can you not know these jargons? !

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