Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
barbarian
Kun:
えびす
On:
バン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2339 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蛮勇 【バンユウ】 foolhardiness, recklessness, savage valour, savage valor, brute courage
  • 蛮行 【バンコウ】 act of barbarity, barbarism, brutality, savagery
  • 南蛮 【ナンバン】 southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south), South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods), Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods), foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe), exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style), chili pepper, nanban, dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions, thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)
  • 生蕃 【セイバン】 unconquered savage, uncivilized aboriginal, aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
man2
Korean:
man

Spanish

  • bárbaro
  • extranjero
  • violento

Portuguese

  • bárbaro

French

  • barbare
1722 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1894 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
322 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1390 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1718 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1879 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2044 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1825 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1609 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2638 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1347 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1827 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1763 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
33044 Morohashi
2129 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5314 New Nelson (John Haig)
1747 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1884 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1580 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
471 2001 Kanji
2j10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-10 SKIP code
2-6-6 SKIP code
0013.6 Four corner code
1-40-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
86ee Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
word, speech, language
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
301 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 語 【ゴ】 word, language, speech
  • 語学 【ゴガク】 study of foreign languages, linguistics
  • 標語 【ヒョウゴ】 motto, slogan, catchword
  • 造語 【ゾウゴ】 coinage, invention of a new word, coined word

Kun reading compounds

  • 語る 【かたる】 to talk about, to speak of, to tell, to narrate, to recite, to chant, to indicate, to show
  • 語るに落ちる 【かたるにおちる】 to let slip a secret, to let the cat out of the bag
  • 語らう 【かたらう】 to talk, to tell, to recite, to pledge, to conspire with

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu3, yu4
Korean:
eo

Spanish

  • palabra
  • discurso
  • lenguaje
  • hablar
  • conversar
  • narrar

Portuguese

  • palavra
  • discurso
  • língua

French

  • langage
  • mot
  • raconter
209 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
124 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
112 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
274 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4374 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
231 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
87 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2136 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
67 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
67 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
154 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1685 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1944 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1040 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1402 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
353 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35533 Morohashi
1543 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5628 New Nelson (John Haig)
347 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
371 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
211 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
231 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0166.1 Four corner code
1-24-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a9e Unicode hex code