Where does “yojijukugo” come from?

yojijukugo (English) comes from Japanese 四字熟語, from Japanese 四, from Middle Chinese 四, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij — four.

yojijukugo (English): A Japanese lexeme composed of four kanji...

Definitions

  1. A Japanese lexeme composed of four kanji...

Ancestry of “yojijukugo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese四字熟語a four-kanji set phrase
2Japanese四four, 4; the fourth
3Middle Chinese四—
4Proto-Sino-Tibetan*pV-lijfour
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij →Every word from Middle Chinese 四 →Every word from Japanese 四 →
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