蛮 — kanji meaning “barbarian”
蛮
barbarian
- Meanings
- barbarian
- On'yomi
- バン (ban)
- Kun'yomi
- えびす
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #2339 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 142
- Chinese reading
- mán — Chinese character page
Words with 蛮
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 野蛮 | やばん yaban | savage; barbarous; barbaric |
| 南蛮 | なんばん nanban | southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south) |
| 蛮行 | ばんこう bankou | act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality |
| 蛮勇 | ばんゆう ban'yuu | foolhardiness; recklessness; savage valour |
| 蛮族 | ばんぞく banzoku | barbarian tribe; savage tribe |
| 蛮人 | ばんじん banjin | savage; barbarian; aboriginal |
| 蛮骨 | ばんこつ bankotsu | brute courage; recklessness |
| 南蛮人 | なんばんじん nanbanjin | Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); southern barbarian |
| 南蛮船 | なんばんせん nanbansen | foreign ship (esp. from Spain and Portugal from the late Muromachi period to the early Edo period); Nanban trade ship |
| 蛮夷 | ばんい ban'i | savages; barbarians |
| 蛮カラ | ばんカラ bankara | scruffy; unconcerned about one's personal appearance |
| 蛮語 | ばんご bango | language spoken by the Emishi |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.