蛮

Meaning

蛮 centers on the idea of uncivilized or crude behavior, often associated with outsiders or barbarians. The meaning is pejorative and refers to people or actions seen as rough and lacking refinement.

• 野蛮やばん
  N1

  savage; barbarous; barbaric; uncivilized; uncivilised

• 南蛮なんばん

  southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south)

• 蛮族ばんぞく

  barbarian tribe; savage tribe

• 蛮行ばんこう

  act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality; savagery

• 蛮勇ばんゆう

  foolhardiness; recklessness; savage valour; savage valor; brute courage

• 蛮人ばんじん

  savage; barbarian; aboriginal

• チキン南蛮チキンなんばん

  fried chicken with vinegar and tartar sauce

• 南蛮人なんばんじん

  Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); southern barbarian

• 南蛮宗なんばんしゅう

  Christianity

• 南蛮寺なんばんじ

  Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century

• 南蛮屏風なんばんびょうぶ

  painted folding screen with scenes of early European visitors to Japan

• 南蛮渡来なんばんとらい

  imported to Japan by early European traders

• 南蛮漬けなんばんづけ

  roasted or deep-fried fish or meat, marinated in a spicy sauce

• 南蛮煮なんばんに

  sauteed vegetables with fish or poultry made into a stew

• 南蛮繁縷なんばんはこべ

  berry catchfly (Silene baccifera); Cucubalus baccifer (former name)

• 南蛮船なんばんせん

  foreign ship (esp. from Spain and Portugal from the late Muromachi period to the early Edo period); Nanban trade ship

• 南蛮菓子なんばんがし

  confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized

• 南蛮貿易なんばんぼうえき

  Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)

• 南蛮辛子なんばんがらし

  chili pepper

• 南蛮黍なんばんきび

  corn; maize

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