Where does “文字組み” come from?

文字組み (Japanese) comes from Japanese 文字, from Middle Chinese 文字.

文字組み (Japanese): character composition

Definitions

  1. character composition

Ancestry of “文字組み”, step by step

文字組み traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 文字

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese文字a letter, a character; script, writing system; a...
2Middle Chinese文字—

via Japanese 組み

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese組み—
Every word from Middle Chinese 文字 →Every word from Japanese 文字 →