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Compounds of 南蛮

  • (n) (1) (arch) (derog) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south)
    (2) (arch) South-East Asia
    (3) (arch) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies)
    (pref) (4) exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)
    (n) (5) (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm)
    (n) (6) (abbr) food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions
    (P)
  • (n) (obsc) corn
    maize
  • (n) (obsc) corn
    maize
  • (n) (arch) southern barbarian (used to describe Western Europeans who visited Japan prior to the Edo period, esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese)
  • (n) foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)
  • (n) (obsc) chili pepper (chile, chilli)
  • (n) (articles) imported to Japan by early European traders