Where does “富士山” come from?

富士山 (Chinese) comes from Japanese 富士山, from Japanese 山, from Japanese 陰, from Middle Chinese 陰.

富士山 (Chinese): Mount Fuji

Definitions

  1. Mount Fuji

Ancestry of “富士山”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese富士山Mount Fuji
2Japanese山a mountain or hill; a mine; a heap, pile
3Japanese陰shadow, shade; hidden side; yin
4Middle Chinese陰—
Every word from Middle Chinese 陰 →Every word from Japanese 陰 →Every word from Japanese 山 →