Where does “菫草” come from?

菫草 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 草, from Middle Chinese 草.

菫草 (Japanese): flowering plants of the Violaceae family

Definitions

  1. flowering plants of the Violaceae family

Ancestry of “菫草”, step by step

菫草 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 草

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

via Japanese 菫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese菫a flowering plant of the family Violaceae; a...
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