Where does “陰陽師” come from?

陰陽師 (Chinese) comes from Japanese 陰陽師, from Japanese 陰陽, from Middle Chinese 陰陽, from Old Chinese 陰陽.

陰陽師 (Chinese): practitioner of 陰陽道

Definitions

  1. practitioner of 陰陽道

Ancestry of “陰陽師”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese陰陽師a practitioner of 陰陽道; under the 律令 system, a...
2Japanese陰陽yin-yang
3Middle Chinese陰陽
4Old Chinese陰陽
Every word from Old Chinese 陰陽Every word from Middle Chinese 陰陽Every word from Japanese 陰陽