Where does “沙西米” come from?
沙西米 (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.
沙西米 (Chinese): sashimi
Definitions
- sashimi
Ancestry of “沙西米”, 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 | — |