Where does “ボカロ曲” come from?

ボカロ曲 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 曲, from Middle Chinese 曲.

ボカロ曲 (Japanese): a song that uses the VOCALOID technology

Definitions

  1. a song that uses the VOCALOID technology

Ancestry of “ボカロ曲”, step by step

ボカロ曲 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 曲

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese曲a piece of music
2Middle Chinese曲—

via Japanese ボカロ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseボカロ—
Every word from Middle Chinese 曲 →Every word from Japanese 曲 →