jadestone

So that Turkish hara may well refer to 'jadestone'-especially since the Turkish word for' jade, yeshim, means 'jasper' and 'porphyry' as well.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4 1981

But noticing in the winter apartment a jadestone bowl, full of single narcissi, in clusters of three or five, Pao-yü began praising their beauty with all the language he could command.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

The walls were of coral, the roof of jadestone and chalcedony, and the floors were of the finest mother-of-pearl.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

But noticing in the winter apartment a jadestone bowl, full of single narcissi, in clusters of three or five, Pao-yü began praising their beauty with all the language he could command.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

They are now made of bamboo, but formerly were made of copper, jadestone, or marble, as such materials were considered less liable to be affected by the weather.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

[12] Tzu-kung said: “Were a beauteous jadestone mine, ought I to hide it away in a case, or seek a good price and sell it?

IX 1909