ming chin.

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iv. 196 Perhaps by way of a ming chʽi, the lacquerer left his entire equipment behind [in a burial chamber] when he had finished the job.

1972 S. H. Hansford Gloss. Chinese Art & Archaeol. (ed. 2) vi. 85 Ming chʽi, objects made for burial with the dead.

1987 Trad. Interior Decoration Summer 9/1 Eskenazi are putting on an exhibition of mingqui, or tomb furnishings from the years 618-906 AD. These mingqi were first discovered by Swedish railway engineers at the end of the nineteenth century and reveal Chinese society in a period that was previously little known.

1997 Oxf. Dict. World Relig. 362/2 Traditionally, the dead [in China] are buried with ming chi (spirit articles), a sustenance of some kind such as the urns and human sacrifices of the archeological sites, or the burning of modern paper items of money and necessities.