Where does “墓場” come from?

墓場 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 墓, from Middle Chinese 墓 — grave, tomb.

墓場 (Japanese): a graveyard, a cemetery

Definitions

  1. a graveyard, a cemetery

Ancestry of “墓場”, step by step

墓場 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 墓

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese墓a grave, a tomb
2Middle Chinese墓grave, tomb

via Japanese 場

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese場a place; a field; a flattened area used for...
2Old Japanese庭garden; ground; place where something is done;...
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