"奇怪" meaning in Japanese

See 奇怪 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [kʲika̠i] Forms: 奇怪 [canonical] (ruby: (), (かい)), kikai [romanization], 奇怪な [adnominal] (ruby: (), (かい)), 奇怪に [adverbial] (ruby: (), (かい))
Head templates: {{ja-adj|きかい|infl=na}} 奇(き)怪(かい) • (kikai) -na (adnominal 奇(き)怪(かい)な (kikai na), adverbial 奇(き)怪(かい)に (kikai ni))
  1. strange, weird
    Sense id: en-奇怪-ja-adj-AAV6tkif Categories (other): Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 38 31 19 12 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Adjective

IPA: [kʲik̚ka̠i] Forms: 奇怪 [canonical] (ruby: 奇怪(きっかい)), kikkai [romanization], kikkwai [romanization], 奇怪な [adnominal] (ruby: 奇怪(きっかい)), 奇怪に [adverbial] (ruby: 奇怪(きっかい))
Etymology: Attested from the 17th century. Head templates: {{ja-adj|きっかい|hhira=きっくゎい|infl=na}} 奇怪(きっかい) • (kikkai) ^(←きっくゎい (kikkwai)?)-na (adnominal 奇怪(きっかい)な (kikkai na), adverbial 奇怪(きっかい)に (kikkai ni))
  1. unimaginable, extremely strange, very weird
    Sense id: en-奇怪-ja-adj-tUqlXyfG Categories (other): Japanese terms with 2 kanji Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 38 31 19 12
  2. (regional, Yamaguchi prefecture) synonym of 奇怪 (kikai, “strange”) Tags: regional Synonyms: 奇怪 [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-奇怪-ja-adj-zlbHNjw~ Categories (other): Japanese links with manual fragments, Regional Japanese, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 14 10 56 20 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 13 10 60 17 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 13 10 60 18 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 38 31 19 12 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 27 20 37 15 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 17 12 54 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: [kʲika̠i] Forms: 奇怪 [canonical] (ruby: (), (かい)), kikai [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|きかい}} 奇(き)怪(かい) • (kikai)
  1. weirdness, strangeness
    Sense id: en-奇怪-ja-noun-yW~b5Qb7 Categories (other): Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 38 31 19 12 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1
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  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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  "title": "奇怪",
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}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: regional, Yamaguchi prefecture",
  "path": [
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}

{
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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 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). 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.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.