Where does “糸車” come from?

糸車 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 糸, from Japanese 偏 — the left-hand component of a kanji.

糸車 (Japanese): spinning wheel

Definitions

  1. spinning wheel

Ancestry of “糸車”, step by step

糸車 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 糸

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese糸thread
2Japanese偏the left-hand component of a kanji

via Japanese 車

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese車a car, an automobile, a carriage, a cart; a...
2Middle Chinese車cart, vehicle
Every word from Japanese 偏 →Every word from Japanese 糸 →