Keyword
savage
Info
FrequencyTop 2000-2100
Type
Jōyō 
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Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 3
Heisig1884
Old form
Readings
ばん
(100%)
Composed of
bloody knife
insect
Used in vocabulary (53 in total)
savage; barbarous; barbaric; uncivilized; uncivilised
barbarian tribe; savage tribe
barbarian; savage
act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality; savagery
foolhardiness; recklessness; savage valour; savage valor; brute courage
(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions
savage; barbarian; aboriginal
fried chicken with vinegar and tartar sauce
rough voice
barbarian's sword
(articles) imported to Japan by early European traders
roasted or deep-fried fish or meat, marinated in a spicy sauce
foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)
savages; barbarians
savage land; barbaric region
Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century
Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)
uncivilized country; savage land
barbarous customs
noodles with duck meat and Welsh onions
confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized
brute courage; recklessness
scruffy; unconcerned about one's personal appearance; rough and uncouth vigor (vigour)
savage people
foreign god
uncivilized indigenes
barbarous custom
savage; barbarous; rustic
language spoken by the Emishi; languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch); foreign language
primitive and barbarous; uncivilized and barbaric
scruffy; unconcerned about one's personal appearance; rough and uncouth vigor (vigour)
sauteed vegetables with fish or poultry made into a stew; poultry or fish stew with chili peppers and Welsh onions mixed in
roasted or deep-fried fish or meat, marinated in a spicy sauce
land of the barbarians
unconquered savage; uncivilized aboriginal; aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction
scruffy; unconcerned about one's personal appearance; rough and uncouth vigor (vigour)
chirping of a small bird
chirping of a small bird
Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); (lit.) southern barbarian
slaves of the barbarians
the barbarians beyond the borders of old China
chili pepper (chile, chilli)
foreign priest; Western priest
fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill
incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from eastern India)
Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense); Johnsongrass; Egyptian millet
berry catchfly (Silene baccifera); Cucubalus baccifer (former name)
Examples (2 in total)
There are still barbarous nations.
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man is.