The story
- Middle Chinese · derived from溫泉“hot springs”
- Japanese · derived from温泉
- English todayonsen
From Japanese 温泉 (onsen), from Middle Chinese 溫泉 ('won dzjwen, “hot springs”), from 溫 /温 (wēn, “warm”) + 泉 (quán, “spring[s]”). Compare the modern Mandarin pronunciation 溫泉 /温泉 (wēnquán).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.