蕃 — kanji meaning “grow luxuriously”
蕃
grow luxuriously
- Meanings
- grow luxuriously
- On'yomi
- バン (ban)、ハン (han)
- Kun'yomi
- —
- Name readings
- しげ、しげる、ば
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- 9
- Newspaper frequency
- #2361 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 140
- Chinese reading
- fán, fān — Chinese character page
Words with 蕃
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吐蕃 | とばん toban | Tibetan Empire (618-842 CE) |
| 蕃社 | ばんしゃ bansha | aborigines village |
| 蕃境 | ばんきょう bankyou | land of the barbarians |
| 蕃書 | ばんしょ bansho | Western books (esp. Dutch; in the Edo period) |
| 蕃神 | ばんしん banshin | foreign god |
| 生蕃 | せいばん seiban | unconquered savage; uncivilized aboriginal |
| 蕃茘枝 | ばんれいし banreishi | sweetsop (Annona squamosa) |
| 蕃別 | ばんべつ banbetsu | clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean) |
| 諸蕃 | しょばん shoban | foreign lands |
| 玄蕃寮 | げんばりょう genbaryou | The Agency for Buddhists and Foreigners (ritsuryō system) |
| 蕃茄 | ばんか banka | tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) |
| 蕃書調所 | ばんしょしらべしょ banshoshirabesho | Institute for the Study of Western Books (Edo period); Institute for the Investigation of Foreign Books |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.