"かい" meaning in Japanese

See かい in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Particle

Forms: kai [romanization]
Etymology: See い (i). Etymology templates: {{m|ja|い|tr=i}} 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] Related terms: だい (dai), わい (wai)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for かい meaning in Japanese (2.2kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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