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野蛮

yě mán

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 野蠻

What 野蛮 means

1. barbarous
2. uncivilized

The characters in 野蛮

• 野yěfield; plain; open space
• 蛮mánbarbarian; bullying; very

Example sentences

• 汤姆很野蛮。
  Tom is an animal.
• 在教养上，他们可以说是和野蛮人差不多。
  Zàijiào yǎng shàng, tāmen kěyǐ shuō shì hé yěmánrén chàbuduō.
  With regards to culture, you could say they're like barbarians.
• 当移居者的村庄被野蛮人征服后，他们的希望和生活到了痛苦的尽头，数年对灾祸的抵抗结束了。
  Dāng yíjū zhě de cūnzhuāng bèi yěmánrén zhēngfú hòu, tāmen de xīwàng hé shēnghuó dào le tòngkǔ de jìntóu, shùnián duì zāihuò de dǐkàng jiéshù le.
  Years of resistance to misfortune ended when the settlers' village was overcome by the savages and their hopes and lives came to the bitter end.
• 在北方的原始部落中，也存在着一种更野蛮的庆祝形式：他们点燃巨大的木柴，以纪念奥丁和托尔，并向祂们献祭人和牲畜。德鲁伊王子随后用金色镰刀从神圣的橡树上割下槲寄生。
  A more barbarous form of these rejoicings took place among the rude peoples of the north where great blocks of wood blazed in honor of Odin and Thor, and sacrifices of men and cattle were made to them. Mistletoe was cut then from the sacred oaks with a golden sickle by the Prince of the Druids.

Words starting with 野蛮

• 野蛮人yě mán rénbarbarian