# かい
## 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)

##### See also

* だい (dai)
* わい (wai)

### 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 [affix] contraption; 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] 甲斐: Kai (a city in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan) [proper noun] 甲斐: Kai Province, an old province of Japan [proper noun] 甲斐: a surname [proper noun] 甲斐: a male given name Alternative spellings 詮, 効 |
| 【粥かゆ】J | [noun] congee (a type of rice porridge) Alternative spelling しゅく |
(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 are uncreated: 懐, 諧, 芥, 廻, 恢, 魁, 乖, 偕, 喙, 誨, 誡.)