Where does “笑顔” come from?
笑顔 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 笑, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
笑顔 (Japanese): smile, happy face, smiling face
Definitions
- smile, happy face, smiling face
Ancestry of “笑顔”, step by step
笑顔 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 笑
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 笑 | a laugh, laughing, laughter; a smile, smiling; a... |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Japanese 顔
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 顔 | a person's face; a person's reputation |