The story
- Middle Chinese · derived from天皇
- English todaytenno
Borrowed from Japanese 天皇(てんのう) (tennō), from Middle Chinese 天皇 (then hwang) with the original sense of “heavenly sovereign”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tenno
Today it means: The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family. Full definition →
Middle Chinese 天皇