Where does “軽自動車” come from?

軽自動車 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 自動車, from Japanese 自動, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 詞, from Middle Chinese 詞.

軽自動車 (Japanese): a light vehicle, kei car, city car, specifically a four-wheeled passenger vehicle with engine displacement less than 660 cubic centimeters

Definitions

  1. a light vehicle, kei car, city car, specifically a four-wheeled passenger vehicle with engine displacement less than 660 cubic centimeters

Ancestry of “軽自動車”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese自動車automobile, car, motorcar
2Japanese自動automatic movement, automatic functioning;...
3Japanese自動詞intransitive verb
4Japanese詞word; word; part of speech
5Middle Chinese詞—

Words derived from “軽自動車”

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