Where does “若菜” come from?

若菜 (Old Japanese) comes from Old Japanese 菜 — greens.

若菜 (Old Japanese): young greens or shoots that can be mixed to 羹 or 餅粥

Definitions

  1. young greens or shoots that can be mixed to 羹 or 餅粥

Ancestry of “若菜”, step by step

若菜 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Japanesegreens

via Old Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Japanese
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