Where does “三叉” come from?

三叉 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 三つ — three things.

三叉 (Japanese): a three-way fork, such as in a road, river, or...

Definitions

  1. a three-way fork, such as in a road, river, or...

Ancestry of “三叉”, step by step

三叉 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 三つ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese三つthree things

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesefork, bifurcation

via Middle Chinese 三叉

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese三叉
Every word from Japanese 三つ