けい

See also: げい and Appendix:Variations of "kei"

Japanese

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

【兄】2 [noun] (rare) an elder brother [pronoun] pronoun referencing an older brother figure: you, he [suffix] attaches to a name referencing an older brother figure: Mister, Mr.

【刑】S [noun] punishment [suffix] punishment; sentence; penalty

【圭】J [proper noun] a unisex given name

【形】2 [suffix] (linguistic morphology) an inflected form; an inflection [noun] clipping of 形容詞 (keiyōshi, “(i-)adjective”)

【恵】S [proper noun] a unisex given name

【啓】S [proper noun] a male given name [noun] disclose, open, say

【京】2 [number] 10,000,000,000,000,000, 1016, (US) ten quadrillion, (UK) ten thousand billion

【珪】H [affix] (historical) jade tablet conferred upon princes as a symbol of authority [affix] silicon

【系】6 [suffix] type, kind, system, family

【計】2 [noun] plan [noun] total [suffix] -meter (measuring device) [prefix] a total of..., in total

【蛍】S [affix] used in various compounds to refer to fluorescence [proper noun] a female given name

【慧】J [proper noun] a male given name Alternative spellings さとし, とし

【軽】3 [prefix] light [noun] abbreviation of 軽自動車 (keijidōsha, “kei car, light automobile”)

【景】4 [noun] vista, view, scene [noun] counter for scenes (in a play)

【桂】J [noun] Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia [noun] common name for various other trees in family Lauraceae [noun] (in compounds) 木犀 (mokusei, “sweet osmanthus tree”) [noun] (euphemistic) the moon [noun] (shogi) the knight in 将棋 (shōgi, “Japanese chess”)

【経】5 [noun] a warp (thread running lengthwise in a woven fabric) [noun] correct logic or reasoning [noun] a scripture (in Buddhism, Confucianism, or other religions) [proper noun] a surname [proper noun] a unisex given name

【敬】6 [affix] respect, honor, reverence

【怪異】 [adjective] strange [noun] strangeness; strange thing

【圣】H [symbol] (Kumamoto, in parking spaces) abbreviation of 軽, referring to 軽自動車 (kei-jidōsha, “light vehicle”).

【罫】H [noun] rule (line on paper to guide writing) [noun] (go) line (making up the grid on the board) [noun] This term needs a translation to English.

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

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 卿, 径, 奎, 磬, 頃, 褻居, 契.)