"とか" meaning in Japanese

See とか in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Particle

Forms: toka [romanization]
Etymology: Case-marking particle と (to) plus adverbial particle か (ka) Etymology templates: {{l|ja|と|tr=to}} と (to), {{l|ja|か|tr=ka}} か (ka) Head templates: {{ja-pos|particle}} とか • (toka)
  1. something like, some kind of; where the situation is unclear
    Sense id: en-とか-ja-particle-OrP~VdYQ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Particle

Forms: toka [romanization]
Etymology: Parallel marking particle と (to) (used to join two words together in the same way as や (ya)) plus adverbial particle か (ka) Etymology templates: {{l|ja|と|tr=to}} と (to), {{l|ja|や|tr=ya}} や (ya), {{l|ja|か|tr=ka}} か (ka) Head templates: {{ja-pos|particle}} とか • (toka)
  1. such as, and so on; used when listing something part of a larger group of similar things
    Sense id: en-とか-ja-particle-48cC2Zvt Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese particles, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 3 91 6 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 5 85 10 Disambiguation of Japanese particles: 3 95 3 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 4 87 9
  2. or something, used to avoid stating something clearly and add vagueness
    Sense id: en-とか-ja-particle-dXal62hv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for とか meaning in Japanese (2.4kB)

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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 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). 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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