Where does “日清戦争” come from?

日清戦争 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 日清, from Japanese 日, from Old Japanese 日, from Proto-Japonic *pi — day, sun.

日清戦争 (Japanese): the First Sino-Japanese War

Definitions

  1. the First Sino-Japanese War

Ancestry of “日清戦争”, step by step

日清戦争 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 日清

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese日清Japan and China under the Qing dynasty
2Japanese日Sunday
3Old Japanese日the sun; sunlight, sunshine; daytime, daylight
4Proto-Japonic*piday, sun

via Japanese 戦争

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese戦争war; to wage war
Every word from Proto-Japonic *pi →Every word from Old Japanese 日 →Every word from Japanese 日 →