Where does “bút chì bấm” come from?

bút chì bấm (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bút chì, from Japanese 鉛筆 — a pencil.

bút chì bấm (Vietnamese): mechanical pencil

Definitions

  1. mechanical pencil

Ancestry of “bút chì bấm”, step by step

bút chì bấm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese bút chì

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebút chìa pencil
2Japanese鉛筆a pencil

via Vietnamese bấm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebấma nail clipper; a stapler; to press
Every word from Japanese 鉛筆 →Every word from Vietnamese bút chì →