なんばんじん
Archaic
Meanings
Archaic
Noun
1. Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); (lit.) southern barbarian
used from the Muromachi to the Edo period
Kanji used
south
savage
person
Pitch accent
んばんじ
んば
んじん
Composed of
south wind tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of south wind tiles
savage; barbarian; aboriginal
Composed of
(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
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person