Where does “寝台列車” come from?

寝台列車 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 列車, from Chinese 列車 — train.

寝台列車 (Japanese): sleeping car

Definitions

  1. sleeping car

Ancestry of “寝台列車”, step by step

寝台列車 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 列車

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese列車train
2Chinese列車train

via Japanese 寝台

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese寝台bed
Every word from Chinese 列車 →Every word from Japanese 列車 →