Where does “色鉛筆” come from?

色鉛筆 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 色, from Middle Chinese 色.

色鉛筆 (Japanese): a colored pencil

Definitions

  1. a colored pencil

Ancestry of “色鉛筆”, step by step

色鉛筆 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 色

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese色color
2Middle Chinese色—

via Japanese 鉛筆

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鉛筆a pencil
Every word from Middle Chinese 色 →Every word from Japanese 色 →