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 型

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese型choreographed training exercises

via Japanese char

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesechar—
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