Where does “夢” come from?
夢 (Japanese) comes from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
夢 (Japanese): a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
Definitions
- a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
Ancestry of “夢”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 2 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 3 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |