"かい" meaning in All languages combined

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Particle [Japanese]

Forms: kai [romanization]
Etymology: See い (i). Head templates: {{ja-pos|particle}} かい • (kai)
  1. (familiar, men's speech) Marks a non-rhetorical question. Tags: familiar Synonyms: かえ (kae) [uncommon]
    Sense id: en-かい-ja-particle-KBLmj4v8 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese particles, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Related terms: だい (dai), わい (wai), For pronunciation and definitions of かい (english: see the following entry.), 【甲斐】, [noun] value, reward, avail, being fruitful, worth doing, [proper noun] 甲斐: Kai (english: a city in Yamanashi Prefecture) [Japan], [proper noun] 甲斐: Kai Province, an old province of Japan, [proper noun] 甲斐: a surname, [proper noun] 甲斐: a male given name, Alternative spellings詮, , For a list of all kanji read as かい (alt: This term, かい, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.), 【粥】J (ruby: (かゆ)), [noun] congee (english: a type of rice porridge), Alternative spellingしゅく
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

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          "english": "Are you fine?",
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          "english": "Can you really do it?",
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          "word": "being fruitful"
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          "word": "worth doing"
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          "english": "a city in Yamanashi Prefecture",
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          "word": "an old province of Japan"
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          "word": "[proper noun] 甲斐: a male given name"
        },
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          "word": "効"
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