蛮
蛮 — Barbarian
barbarian
On’yomiバン (ban)
Kun’yomiえびす (ebisu)
Stroke order (12 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 蛮
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 野蛮 | やばん yaban | savage; barbarous; barbaric |
| 蛮行 | ばんこう bankou | act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality |
| 南蛮 | なんばん nanban | southern 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) |
| 蛮勇 | ばんゆう banyuu | foolhardiness; recklessness; savage valour |
Study notes
蛮 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 12 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2339 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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