Where does “kitakitsune” come from?

kitakitsune (English) comes from Japanese キタキツネ, from Japanese 狐, from Japanese 絵筆, from Japanese 筆, from Japanese 文, from Middle Chinese 文.

kitakitsune (English): The Ezo red fox

Definitions

  1. The Ezo red fox

Ancestry of “kitakitsune”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseキタキツネVulpes vulpes schrencki a subspecies of the red fox
2Japanese狐a fox
3Japanese絵筆paintbrush
4Japanese筆a writing brush, a painting brush, a pen;...
5Japanese文the mon, an old currency; a unit of length for...
6Middle Chinese文—
Every word from Middle Chinese 文 →Every word from Japanese 文 →Every word from Japanese 筆 →