Where does “己未” come from?

己未 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 己, from Middle Chinese 己.

己未 (Japanese): Earth Sheep, the fifty-sixth term of the sexagenary cycle

Definitions

  1. Earth Sheep, the fifty-sixth term of the sexagenary cycle

Ancestry of “己未”, step by step

己未 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 己

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese己reflexive pronoun: oneself; first-person pronoun:...
2Middle Chinese己—

via Japanese 未

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese未un-; in-
2Japanese羊a sheep
Every word from Middle Chinese 己 →Every word from Japanese 己 →