Where does “ヒョウ属” come from?

ヒョウ属 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 豹, from Middle Chinese 豹.

ヒョウ属 (Japanese): Panthera

Definitions

  1. Panthera

Ancestry of “ヒョウ属”, step by step

ヒョウ属 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 豹

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese豹a leopard
2Middle Chinese豹—

via Japanese 属

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese属a genus
2Middle Chinese屬—
Every word from Middle Chinese 豹 →Every word from Japanese 豹 →