Where does “昼間” come from?

昼間 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 間, from Middle Chinese 間.

昼間 (Japanese): daytime

Definitions

  1. daytime

Ancestry of “昼間”, step by step

昼間 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 間

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese間interval; "suffixes some expressions of time to...
2Middle Chinese間—

via Japanese 昼

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese昼the daytime
Every word from Middle Chinese 間 →Every word from Japanese 間 →