What does 発祥 mean?
発祥 is a Japanese noun meaning “origin” in English. It can also be translated as “appearance of an auspicious sign that one will receive a divine mandate to becoming emperor, birth of an emperor or his ancestors” depending on context. It is written as 発祥 in kanji, はっしょう in hiragana, and hasshou in romaji. This word is part of JLPT N1 vocabulary.
Example sentence
これらの国々はヨーロッパ文明発祥の地である。
European civilization had its birth in these lands.