Where does “赤撞木鮫” come from?

赤撞木鮫 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 撞木鮫, from Japanese 鮫 — a shark.

赤撞木鮫 (Japanese): a scalloped hammerhead

Definitions

  1. a scalloped hammerhead

Ancestry of “赤撞木鮫”, step by step

赤撞木鮫 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 撞木鮫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese撞木鮫a hammerhead shark shark of the genus Sphyrna
2Japanese鮫a shark

via Japanese 赤

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese赤red; communism, socialism; a communist
Every word from Japanese 鮫 →Every word from Japanese 撞木鮫 →