漫

Meaning

漫 centers on a lack of restraint or control: things that happen involuntarily, spread without limit, or become loose and corrupt. The cartoon sense is a natural extension of this free, unrestrained expression.

• 漫画まんが
  N5

  cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga

• 浪漫ロマン
  N2

  romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale

• 漫才まんざい
  N1

  manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act, usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit

• 天真爛漫てんしんらんまん

  innocent; naive; artless; unaffected; genuine; childlike

• 散漫さんまん

  vague; desultory; distracted; loose; half-hearted; diffuse; scattered

• 爛漫らんまん

  in full bloom; in full glory; glorious; luxuriant; splendid

• 漫喫まんきつ

  manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour)

• 漫談まんだん

  chat; desultory conversation

• 放漫ほうまん

  whimsy; looseness; indiscretion; laxity

• 漫遊まんゆう

  pleasure trip; tour

• 瀰漫びまん

  spread; pervasion; permeation

• 漫研まんけん

  society for the study of manga

• 漫ろそぞろ

  restless; on edge (and unable to concentrate); distracted

• 漫罵まんば

  revilement; derision

• 漫画家まんがか

  cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka

• 漫然まんぜん
  N1

  aimless; rambling; desultory; casual

• ４コマ漫画よんこままんが

  four-panel comic strip; yonkoma

• しゃべくり漫才しゃべくりまんざい

  manzai based on comic dialogue (as opposed to a skit)

• ウェブ漫画ウェブまんが

  webcomic; web manga

• エロ漫画エロまんが

  erotic manga; pornographic manga

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