Where does “hiện tượng” come from?

hiện tượng (Vietnamese) comes from Japanese 現象, from Middle Chinese 現象.

hiện tượng (Vietnamese): a phenomenon

Definitions

  1. a phenomenon

Ancestry of “hiện tượng”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese現象a phenomenon
2Middle Chinese現象—
Every word from Middle Chinese 現象 →Every word from Japanese 現象 →
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