野蛮人

See also: 野蠻人

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 野蛮人 – see 野蠻人 (“barbarian; savage”). (This term is the simplified form of 野蠻人).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
野	蛮	人
や Grade: 2	ばん Grade: S	じん Grade: 1
on’yomi	kan’on

Alternative spelling
野蠻人 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 野(や)蛮(ばん) (yaban, “barbaric”) + 人(じん) (-jin, “people”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) やばんじん [yàbáńjíꜜǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
IPA^(key): [ja̠bã̠ɲ̟d͡ʑĩɴ]

Noun

野(や)蛮(ばん)人(じん) • (yabanjin) ^{←やばんじん (yabanzin)^?}

barbarian
- 1942, Edogawa Ranpo, Shin Takarajima‎:
  
  「いやに淋(さび)しい海(かい)岸(がん)だね。一(いっ)艘(そう)の舟(ふね)も見(み)えないし、家(いえ)らしいものもないし、……やっぱり南(なん)洋(よう)のどこかの島(しま)にちがいないけれど……ひょっとしたら野(や)蛮(ばん)人(じん)の国(くに)かも知(し)れないぜ」
  “Iya ni sabishii kaigan da ne. I'-sō no fune mo mienai shi, ie rashii mono mo nai shi,……yappari nan'yō no dokoka no shima ni chigainai keredo……hyotto shitara yabanjin no kuni ka mo shirenai ze”
  “It's a terribly desolate coast, isn't it? We can't see any ships or anything that lools like a house... as expected, it must be an island somewhere in the South Seas... perhap it might be a country of barbarians.”

Synonyms

未(み)開(かい)人(じん) (mikaijin)
蛮(ばん)人(じん) (banjin)

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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