Where does “赤紙” come from?
赤紙 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 紙, from Middle Chinese 紙.
赤紙 (Japanese): red paper used as a charm or ward against pox (usually smallpox, also the great pox or syphilis), and pasted on the frame of oil lamps or on 仁王}} statues
Definitions
- red paper used as a charm or ward against pox (usually smallpox, also the great pox or syphilis), and pasted on the frame of oil lamps or on 仁王}} statues
Ancestry of “赤紙”, step by step
赤紙 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 赤
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 赤 | red; communism, socialism; a communist |