Where does “撒西米” come from?
撒西米 (Chinese) comes from Japanese 刺身, from Japanese 身, from Japanese み, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
撒西米 (Chinese): sashimi
Definitions
- sashimi
Ancestry of “撒西米”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 刺身 | sashimi, a dish of sliced raw fish or meat |
| 2 | Japanese | 身 | a body; a living body; a dead body, a corpse |
| 3 | Japanese | み | 身 body; 実 fruit; nut; content; 霊, 神 spirit; god |
| 4 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 5 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 7 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |