Where does “靨” come from?

靨 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 笑, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

靨 (Japanese): a dimple

Definitions

a dimple

Ancestry of “靨”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	笑	a laugh, laughing, laughter; a smile, smiling; a...
2	Japanese	連用形	an inflectional category: the continuative or...
3	Japanese	見る	to see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
4	Japanese	夢	a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
5	Old Japanese	夢	a dream
6	Japanese	目	an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
7	Middle Chinese	目	—

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