Where does “空鼾” come from?

空鼾 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 空, from Middle Chinese 空.

空鼾 (Japanese): a fake snore, a snore deliberately made to make...

Definitions

  1. a fake snore, a snore deliberately made to make...

Ancestry of “空鼾”, step by step

空鼾 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 空

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese空the sky; something empty; ineffectual
2Middle Chinese空—

via Japanese 鼾

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鼾snoring, a snore; to snore; snoring
2Middle Chinese鼾—
Every word from Middle Chinese 空 →Every word from Japanese 空 →