Where does “天体物理学” come from?

天体物理学 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 物理学, from Japanese 学, from Middle Chinese 學.

天体物理学 (Japanese): astrophysics

Definitions

  1. astrophysics

Ancestry of “天体物理学”, step by step

天体物理学 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 物理学

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese物理学physics
2Japanese学scholarship; learning; knowledge; -ology; -ics;...
3Middle Chinese學—

via Japanese 天体

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese天体celestial body
Every word from Middle Chinese 學 →Every word from Japanese 学 →Every word from Japanese 物理学 →