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Kanji Detail for 蕃 - "foreign"

蕃

  • Meaning

    蕃 means "foreign." Also associated with flourish, hedge.

    1. Flourish - To grow abundantly; to thrive.

    2. Hedge - A fence; a barrier.

    3. Foreign - Relating to other lands or peoples.

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    • Verified meaning: foreign
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read しげり, しげる, ばん)
    • Also carries these associations: flourish, hedge

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 蕃

    Given names 蕃(しげり)Listen 蕃(しげる)Listen 蕃(ばん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    grow luxuriously

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    foreign things

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    see 吐蕃[Tu3 bo1]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    abundant, flourishing; barbarians, foreigners

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Grass flourishing. Therefore numerous things are all called 蕃. Such as 蕃盛 (flourishing), 蕃庶 (numerous). | Same as 番. 番漢 also written as 蕃漢.

  • Onyomi

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    ban(バン) バン

    han(ハン) ハン

  • Kunyomi

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    none

  • Strokes

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    15 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    flourish hedge foreign covering fence proliferate barbarian barrier bloom blossom boundary defend exotic grow guard immigrant non-native outsider primitive prosper savage thrive

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