Where does “禿鷲” come from?

禿鷲 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 禿, from Middle Chinese 禿.

禿鷲 (Japanese): an Old World vulture

Definitions

  1. an Old World vulture

Ancestry of “禿鷲”, step by step

禿鷲 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 禿

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese禿baldness; treelessness; bobbed hair
2Middle Chinese禿—

via Japanese 鷲

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鷲an eagle
Every word from Middle Chinese 禿 →Every word from Japanese 禿 →