Where does “目白鮫” come from?

目白鮫 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 目白, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

目白鮫 (Japanese): a sandbar shark

Definitions

  1. a sandbar shark

Ancestry of “目白鮫”, step by step

目白鮫 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 目白

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese目白the Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus; a...
2Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
3Middle Chinese目—

via Japanese 鮫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鮫a shark

Words derived from “目白鮫”

Every word from Middle Chinese 目 →Every word from Japanese 目 →Every word from Japanese 目白 →