Where does “微笑む” come from?

微笑む (Japanese) comes from Japanese 頬, from Japanese 列, from Middle Chinese 列.

微笑む (Japanese): to smile

Definitions

  1. to smile

Ancestry of “微笑む”, step by step

微笑む traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 頬

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese頬cheek; the cheeks; the face
2Japanese列line, row; a column of a matrix
3Middle Chinese列—

via Japanese 笑む

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese笑むto smile; to bloom
Every word from Middle Chinese 列 →Every word from Japanese 列 →Every word from Japanese 頬 →