Where does “Mangaka” come from?

Mangaka (German) comes from Japanese 漫画家, from Japanese 漫画, from Japanese 画, from Middle Chinese 畫 — drawing.

Mangaka (German): mangaka

Definitions

  1. mangaka

Ancestry of “Mangaka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese漫画家a cartoonist; a comics artist
2Japanese漫画a drawing or painting made as one pleases without...
3Japanese画picture, drawing, painting; movie, film, video;...
4Middle Chinese畫drawing
Every word from Middle Chinese 畫 →Every word from Japanese 画 →Every word from Japanese 漫画 →