Where does “憲兵” come from?

憲兵 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 兵, from Middle Chinese へい, from Middle Chinese 兵.

憲兵 (Japanese): a military police; a gendarmerie

Definitions

  1. a military police; a gendarmerie

Ancestry of “憲兵”, step by step

憲兵 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 兵

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese兵a soldier; a war machine; a weapon; a battle, a...
2Middle Chineseへい—
3Middle Chinese兵—

via Japanese 憲

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese憲law
Every word from Middle Chinese 兵 →Every word from Middle Chinese へい →Every word from Japanese 兵 →