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
- —南蛮Popularsouthern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south); South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods); Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods); foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe); exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style); chili pepper; nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions; thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)
- —蛮行Popularact of barbarity; barbarism; brutality; savagery
- —蛮勇Popularfoolhardiness; recklessness; savage valour; savage valor; brute courage
- —野蛮Popularsavage; barbarous; barbaric; uncivilized; uncivilised
- —蛮夷savages; barbarians
- —蛮語language spoken by the Emishi; languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch); foreign language
- —蛮骨brute courage; recklessness
- —蛮習barbarous custom
- —蛮声rough voice
- —蛮的savage; barbarous; rustic
- —蛮風barbarous customs
- —蛮民savage people
- —蛮力brute force
- —蛮隷slaves of the barbarians
- —蛮人savage; barbarian; aboriginal
- —蛮族barbarian tribe; savage tribe
- —蛮地savage land; barbaric region
- —綿蛮chirping of a small bird
- —蛮僧foreign priest; Western priest
- —蛮刀barbarian's sword