Where does “Samsung” come from?

Samsung is the English name for the Korean company 삼성, whose name combines the Korean morphemes meaning "three" and "star."

Samsung (English): A phone manufactured by the South Korean...

Definitions

  1. A phone manufactured by the South Korean...

Ancestry of “Samsung”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean삼성To introspect three times daily
2Middle Chinese
3Japanesethe nature of something; sex, gender; gender
4Middle Chinese

Words derived from “Samsung

Every word from Middle Chinese