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南蛮 【なんばん】

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

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