かい | Shirabe

1)

かい

#405

Common

Pitch accent

Meaning

yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?

used at sentence-end; indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical)

ケンさん、君きみは本気ほんきかい。

Are you on the level, Ken?

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2)

回かい

#1,354

Common

Pitch accent

Meaning

1

counter for occurrences

新種しんしゅの稲いねによっては年ねんに２に、３回さんかい収穫しゅうかくできる物ものもある。

Some new kinds of rice can be harvested two or three times a year.
2

a time; an instance
3

inning (baseball); round; game

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Kanji

回カイ -times, round, game

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3)

会かい

#2,133

Common

Pitch accent

Meaning

1

meeting; assembly; party; gathering; conference; athletic meet

この会かいに出席しゅっせきしている他たの代表者だいひょうしゃに直接ちょくせつ話はなすのではなく、どうか議長ぎちょうに話はなして下ください。

Kindly address yourself to the chairman, not directly to other representatives at this meeting.
2

society; association; club

この会かいの名称めいしょうはＥ．Ｓ．Ｓ．とする。

This association shall be called the E.S.S.

Kanji

会カイ meeting, meet, party

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4)

階かい

#3,627

Common

Pitch accent

Meaning

1

storey; story; floor
2

stairs

See also: 階 (かい)

私わたくしの部屋へやは４よん階かいにあります。

My apartment is on the fourth floor.
3

stage (in chronostratigraphy)

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Kanji

階カイ storey, stair, counter for storeys of a building

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5)

買かい

#4,935

Common

Pitch accent

Meaning

1

buying; shopping

安物買やすものがいの銭失ぜにうしない。

Buy cheap and waste your money.
2

buyer
3

purchase

Kanji

買バイ buy

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6)

界かい

#5,796

Pitch accent

Meaning

1

community; circles; world

彼女かのじょはきっと東京とうきょうのファッション界かいに旋風せんぷうを巻まき起おこすことでしょう。

I'm sure she'll cause a stir in the Tokyo fashion world.
2

biology

kingdom
3

geology

erathem

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Kanji

界カイ world, boundary

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甲斐かい

#10,097

Common

Pitch accent

Meaning

result (that makes an act worthwhile); worth (in doing something); value; effect; use; benefit; avail

苦心くしんの甲斐かいがあった。

That was well worth the trouble.

Kanji

甲コウ armor, high (voice), A grade 斐ヒ beautiful, patterned

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8)

甲斐かい

#10,097

Pitch accent

Meaning

Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)

Kanji

甲コウ armor, high (voice), A grade 斐ヒ beautiful, patterned

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9)

解かい

#11,872

Pitch accent

Meaning

1

mathematics

solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.); root (e.g. of a polynomial)

以下いかの方程式ほうていしきの解かいを求もとめよ。

Find the solution to the following equation.
2

solution (to a given problem); answer
3

explanation; interpretation