Where does “笑” come from?
笑 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
笑 (Japanese): a laugh, laughing, laughter; a smile, smiling; a...
Definitions
- a laugh, laughing, laughter; a smile, smiling; a...
Ancestry of “笑”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 2 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 3 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 4 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 5 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 6 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |