Where does “Toshiba” come from?

Toshiba (Hungarian) comes from Japanese 東芝, from Japanese 東京, from Vietnamese Đông Kinh, from Middle Chinese 東 — east.

Toshiba (Hungarian): Toshiba a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation

Definitions

  1. Toshiba a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation

Ancestry of “Toshiba”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese東芝Toshiba, a Japanese company
2Japanese東京an eastern capital
3VietnameseĐông Kinha rural commune in Thái Bình, Vietnam
4Middle Chinese東east
Every word from Middle Chinese 東 →Every word from Vietnamese Đông Kinh →Every word from Japanese 東京 →