Where does “草仮名” come from?

草仮名 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

草仮名 (Japanese): sōgana

Definitions

  1. sōgana

Ancestry of “草仮名”, step by step

草仮名 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 仮名

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
2Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
3Middle Chinese名name

via Japanese 草

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese草grass; a weed; a herb
2Middle Chinese草—
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