Where does “保健室” come from?

保健室 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 室, from Middle Chinese 室.

保健室 (Japanese): a nurse's office as in a school, infirmary as in a company, dispensary chiefly UK

Definitions

  1. a nurse's office as in a school, infirmary as in a company, dispensary chiefly UK

Ancestry of “保健室”, step by step

保健室 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 室

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese室room
2Middle Chinese室—

via Japanese 保健

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese保健health care
Every word from Middle Chinese 室 →Every word from Japanese 室 →