Where does “鎮魂歌” come from?

鎮魂歌 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 鎮魂, from Middle Chinese 鎮魂.

鎮魂歌 (Japanese): requiem music composed to honor a dead person

Definitions

  1. requiem music composed to honor a dead person

Ancestry of “鎮魂歌”, step by step

鎮魂歌 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 鎮魂

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鎮魂consolation and pacification of the souls of the...
2Middle Chinese鎮魂—

via Japanese 歌

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese歌a song; poetry
Every word from Middle Chinese 鎮魂 →Every word from Japanese 鎮魂 →