かい

See also: がい

Japanese

Etymology 1

See い (i).

Particle

かい • (kai)

(familiar, men's speech) Marks a non-rhetorical question.
元(げん)気(き)かい？
Genki kai?
Are you fine?

本(ほん)当(とう)に出(で)来(き)るのかい？
Hontō ni dekiru no kai?
Can you really do it?

Alternative forms

(less common) かえ (kae)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of かい – see the following entries.

【回】2

[affix] turn; revolve

[affix] return; go back

[affix] time; occasion

[affix] (dated) Hui; Islam

[affix] alternative form of 蛔 (kai, “roundworm; intestinal worm”)

[counter] occurrences

[counter] innings in baseball, games, rounds

[counter] (Kansai) indicating year of university students

[noun] time, occasion

[noun] turn, round

[noun] episode, chapter

[noun] (baseball, softball) inning

【会】2	[noun] meeting, gathering [noun] society, association, club [suffix] meeting [suffix] party; function

【海】2	[affix] sea; ocean

【絵】2	[affix] picture, painting, drawing, sketch

【界】3

[noun] boundary

[noun] a bounded area or region

[noun] a bounded group of people, a society, a world as a social grouping, such as business, celebrities, or finance

[noun] the border edge of a thing

[noun] (Buddhism) the category of a thing

[noun] (Buddhism) the world or realm of a thing

[noun] lines drawn between the lines of a text, as on lined writing paper

[noun] lines drawn to lay out a draft of a piece of artwork: a sketch

[noun] (biology, taxonomy) a kingdom

[noun] (geology) a stratum corresponding to a geologic age

【開】3	[affix] open [affix] start; beginning

【階】3	[affix] step, stair, storey [affix] class, rank, level [counter] floors, storeys (of a building)

【改】4	[affix] change; modify; reform [suffix] revision [suffix] revised, modified

【械】4	[affix] machine; instrument; contraption [affix] fetter [noun] This term needs a translation to English.

【快】5	[affix] pleasant, pleasing, comfortable, enjoyable [affix] fast, quick (in a pleasing way) [affix] sharp (of knives); clever (of wits) [affix] recovery (from illness, of health) [noun] (literary) pleasure; delight; enjoyment

【解】5	[affix] divide; split; separate [affix] untie; loosen; relax; remove [affix] make clear; explain [affix] understand; comprehend [affix] opinion; explanation; solution [noun] explanation; interpretation [noun] (mathematics) solution [noun] answer; reply (to a given question or problem)

【灰】6	[affix] ash; ashes

【介】S	[affix] to be between, mediate [affix] assist; help [affix] shell, shellfish [affix] armor

【戒】S	[noun] precept, commandment

【怪】S	[affix] strange; suspicious [affix] mysterious; wonderful [affix] extraordinary; unusual [noun] strangeness

【拐】S	[affix] kidnap; abduct; falsify

【悔】S	[affix] to repent, regret

【皆】S	[affix] all; every

【塊】S	[affix] lump, mass, chunk, clod

【楷】S	[affix] model; pattern [affix] regular script: a style of Chinese characters that is square and straight-lined

【潰】S	[affix] to crush; to smash

【壊】S	[affix] break

【晦】J	[affix] end of the month [affix] dark, darkened [affix] obscure, unknown [affix] conceal, hide

【貝】1	[noun] [from 712] an aquatic shellfish (generally limited to mollusks with calcareous shells such as clams or snails, and excluding crustaceans such as shrimp or crabs)

【櫂】J	[noun] oar, paddle

【甲斐】

[noun] value, reward, avail, being fruitful or worth doing

[proper noun] Kai (a city in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan)

[proper noun] Kai (a historical province of Japan, roughly corresponding to present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)

[proper noun] a surname

[proper noun] a male given name

Alternative spellings
詮, 効

【粥】J	[noun] [1563—??] (archaic) congee (a type of rice porridge)

(This term, かい (kai), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as かい, see Category:Japanese kanji read as かい.

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 懐, 諧, 芥, 廻, 恢, 魁, 乖, 偕, 喙, 誨, 誡.)