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南蛮

なんばん

Common

Meanings

  1. South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods)
  2. Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods)
  3. chili pepper
  4. southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south)
  5. thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)
  6. foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe); exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style)
  7. nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

Kanji used