Where does “抗生物質” come from?

抗生物質 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 物質 — material, substance.

抗生物質 (Japanese): antibiotics

Definitions

  1. antibiotics

Ancestry of “抗生物質”, step by step

抗生物質 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 物質

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese物質material, substance

via Japanese 抗生

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese抗生antibiotic
Every word from Japanese 物質