Where does “4コマ漫画” come from?

4コマ漫画 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 漫画, from Japanese 画, from Middle Chinese 畫 — drawing.

4コマ漫画 (Japanese): a four-frame comic strip

Definitions

  1. a four-frame comic strip

Ancestry of “4コマ漫画”, step by step

4コマ漫画 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 漫画

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese漫画a drawing or painting made as one pleases without...
2Japanese画picture, drawing, painting; movie, film, video;...
3Middle Chinese畫drawing

via Japanese 四

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese四four, 4; the fourth
2Middle Chinese四—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*pV-lijfour

via Japanese 齣

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese齣a frame of a comic or film; an act or scene of a...
2Middle Chinese齣—

Words derived from “4コマ漫画”

Every word from Middle Chinese 畫 →Every word from Japanese 画 →Every word from Japanese 漫画 →