The story
- Japanese · derived from点字“Braille”
- Japanese · derived from点字ブロック
- English todaytenji block
From Japanese 点字ブロック (tenji burokku), from Japanese 点字 (tenji, “Braille”) + English block.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tenji block
Today it means: A type of walkway paving tile, consisting of a dot array block and a line stack block, used to inform visually impaired pedestrians of a route (lined path) and danger ahead (dotted threshold). Full definition →
Japanese 点字ブロック