Where does “鳥類” come from?

鳥類 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 鳥 — a bird; a chicken; fowl or chicken meat.

鳥類 (Japanese): birds, bird

Definitions

  1. birds, bird

Ancestry of “鳥類”, step by step

鳥類 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesea bird; a chicken; fowl or chicken meat

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesekind, sort, type, the like
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