Where does “入場券” come from?

入場券 (Chinese) comes from Japanese 入場券, from Japanese 券, from Middle Chinese けん, from Middle Chinese 元.

入場券 (Chinese): admission ticket

Definitions

  1. admission ticket

Ancestry of “入場券”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese入場券admission ticket
2Japanese券ticket, certificate; bond, coupon
3Middle Chineseけん—
4Middle Chinese元—
Every word from Middle Chinese 元 →Every word from Middle Chinese けん →Every word from Japanese 券 →