Where does “頬白鮫” come from?

頬白鮫 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 頬, from Japanese 列, from Middle Chinese 列.

頬白鮫 (Japanese): a great white shark

Definitions

  1. a great white shark

Ancestry of “頬白鮫”, step by step

頬白鮫 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 頬

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese頬cheek; the cheeks; the face
2Japanese列line, row; a column of a matrix
3Middle Chinese列—

via Japanese 白

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese白the color white; innocence; a white go stone
2Middle Chinese白—

via Japanese 鮫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鮫a shark
Every word from Middle Chinese 列 →Every word from Japanese 列 →Every word from Japanese 頬 →