Where does “蚊帳吊草” come from?

蚊帳吊草 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 蚊帳, from Japanese 蚊, from Japanese 屋 — house; shop; person who sells or does that thing;...

蚊帳吊草 (Japanese): lesser rice flat sedge

Definitions

  1. lesser rice flat sedge

Ancestry of “蚊帳吊草”, step by step

蚊帳吊草 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 蚊帳

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese蚊帳mosquito net
2Japanese蚊mosquito
3Japanese屋house; shop; person who sells or does that thing;...

via Japanese 草

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

via Japanese 吊り

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese吊り—
Every word from Japanese 屋 →Every word from Japanese 蚊 →Every word from Japanese 蚊帳 →