Kanji1 / 12
蛮 kanji
barbarian
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
バン
Kun readings
えびす
Variant forms
蠻Words with 蛮
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —土蛮uncivilized indigenes
- —蛮国barbarian country; uncivilized country; foreign country
- —蛮岩conglomerate; pudding stone
- —南蛮人Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); southern barbarian
- —南蛮船foreign ship (esp. from Spain and Portugal from the late Muromachi period to the early Edo period); Nanban trade ship
- —蛮カラscruffy; unconcerned about one's personal appearance; rough and uncouth vigor (vigour)
- —野蛮人barbarian; savage
- —南蛮黍corn; maize
- —鴨南蛮noodles with duck meat and Welsh onions
- —南蛮煮sauteed vegetables with fish or poultry made into a stew; poultry or fish stew with chili peppers and Welsh onions mixed in
- —野蛮国uncivilized country; savage land
- —南蛮宗Christianity
- —南蛮寺Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century
- —真南蛮incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from eastern India)
- —鶏南蛮chicken nanban
- —葱南蛮neginanban; soba in hot broth topped with simmered onions and deep-fried tofu
- —夷蛮戎狄the barbarians beyond the borders of old China
- —南蛮渡来imported to Japan by early European traders
- —未開野蛮primitive and barbarous; uncivilized and barbaric
- —南蛮辛子chili pepper