Where does “白手手長猿” come from?

白手手長猿 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 手長猿, from Japanese 手, from Middle Chinese 手.

白手手長猿 (Japanese): lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)

Definitions

  1. lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)

Ancestry of “白手手長猿”, step by step

白手手長猿 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 手長猿

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese手長猿gibbon
2Japanese手a hand; a handle, grip; a paw, foreleg
3Middle Chinese手—

via Japanese 白

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese白the color white; innocence; a white go stone
2Middle Chinese白—
Every word from Middle Chinese 手 →Every word from Japanese 手 →Every word from Japanese 手長猿 →