Japanese symbol for “intercultural”
異文化間
いぶんかかん
Romaji: ibunkakan
cross-cultural; intercultural
In Japanese, intercultural is 異文化間, read いぶんかかん (ibunkakan).
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Meanings
- adj-no cross-cultural; intercultural
Kanji and stroke order
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 異常 | いじょう ijou | abnormal; unusual; extraordinary |
| 異性 | いせい isei | the opposite sex |
| 特異 | とくい tokui | unique; peculiar; singular |
| 異動 | いどう idou | (personnel) change; transfer; relocation |
| 異なる | ことなる kotonaru | to differ; to be different; to disagree |
| 異端 | いたん itan | heresy; nonconformism; heathenism |
| 文化 | ぶんか bunka | culture; civilization; civilisation |
| 文字 | もじ moji | letter (of an alphabet); character |
| 変化 | へんか henka | change; variation; alteration |
| 時間 | じかん jikan | time |
See also: Chinese symbol for “intercultural”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.