Where does “char型” come from?

char型 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 型 — choreographed training exercises.

Ancestry of “char型”, step by step

char型 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesechoreographed training exercises

via Japanese char

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesechar
Every word from Japanese